AT least 7 million people, mostly children could die in Africa, within the next decade, following an outbreak of incurable malaria recently discovered in Cambodia and Vietnam, experts have said.

Raising alarm over the imminent disaster, Founding Director of a non-governmental organisation, Consortium for Health Action, Colin Ohrt, in a memo made available to Naija Magazine Online called for immediate action, describing the situation as “a public health emergency” that could have devastating economic impacts if unchecked.

According to Mr. Ohrt, Consortium for Health Action which was recently launched have as its first mission to facilitate the elimination of these very challenging parasites, with a first large donation to provide an assessment of malaria treatment effectiveness in Eastern Cambodia.

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