The Technical working group on Childhood Killer Diseases known as Niger State Action Committee on CKD (NASSCKD) has expressed concern over the inadequate funding to IMCI which resulted into stock out of Amoxicillin DT and Zn-LO-ORS contributing to increased possibilities of Under five (U-5) death in Niger State.

In a zoom meeting coordinated by the State Ministry of Health and State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), with the support of the Partnership For Advocacy In Child and Family Health At Scale (PACFaH@Scale) through Centre for Communication and Reproductive Health, CCRHS, Bida Niger State, the NSACCKD, TWG expressed fear that there will be a likelihood of increased death of under-five (U-5).

The Project Director of the CCRHS, Dr. Aliyu Yabagi Shehu said Primary Health Care Centers (PHCs) across the state have stock out of Amoxicillin DT and Zinc LO-ORS particularly at this critical period when 2013NDHS survey of 2013 relays that out of 195,000 children, 19,000 will die before their 5th birth day.

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