{"id":64971,"date":"2025-04-28T05:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64971"},"modified":"2025-04-28T05:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:53:22","slug":"battle-against-malaria-gains-new-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/28\/battle-against-malaria-gains-new-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Against Malaria Gains New Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Determined to stamp out malaria, major health organizations stormed the University of Lagos with a sweeping campaign of education, free testing, and drug distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Themed &#8220;Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,&#8221; the outreach united Green Life Pharmaceuticals, Green Life Hospital, Seagreen Pharmaceutical, and Clearline HMO in a powerful push to fight the disease that continues to ravage communities across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of students and residents turned up for free malaria tests, prevention kits, and vital health education. Organizers stressed the urgent need for community action, with a special focus on empowering young people to drive change.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Nwosu, Executive Director of Green Life Pharmaceuticals, described the campaign as more than a symbolic gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here not just to mark a day but to make a real difference,\u201d he declared, calling for sustained efforts against the deadly scourge.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for Clearline HMO, Dr. Oghenerukevwe Peretomode warned that climate change is fueling malaria through flooding and rising temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>She called for stronger government support, innovation, and personal responsibility, urging Nigerians to use treated nets and maintain clean surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ikeagu, General Manager of Green Life Hospital, said the choice of UNILAG was deliberate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Youth are the key to this battle. They will take the message home,&#8221; he said, stressing that early detection and treatment remain vital weapons in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The event stood as a fresh rallying call for Nigerians to take the malaria fight personally, seriously, and urgently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Determined to stamp out malaria, major health organizations stormed the University of Lagos with a sweeping campaign of education, free testing, and drug distribution. Themed &#8220;Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,&#8221; the outreach united Green Life Pharmaceuticals, Green Life Hospital, Seagreen Pharmaceutical, and Clearline HMO in a powerful push to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64974,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64971\/revisions\/64974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}