Kano state government has distributed health facilities worth N508 million to combat malaria and other related diseases to mark this year’s World Malaria Day.

At the graduation ceremony of 800 of the state’s ‘Lafiya Jari’ Scheme and Malaria Control Workers, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso says 150,000 worth capital will be given to each trainee of the program.

kwankwaso who noted that malaria remains an emergency disease that affects mostly children under the age of five and pregnant women, resolved that his government will join other nations in the fight against malaria.

The governor was optimistic that the launching of Sickler Support Program and graduation of Lafiya Jari trainee as well as distribution of support facilities will certainly assist in combatting malaria and other related diseases.

However, the state’s commissioner of health, Yusuf Labaran, about 3.3 billion people are leaving with malaria in the world while about 305 cases are recorded annually in Nigeria. The disease, he adds has only reached 25 percent reduction according to a report by the World Health Organization.

Meanwhile, the representative of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, Ben Fischer said the UK government have over the years been working closely with the Nigerian government to combat malaria and other related diseases stressing that government at all level need to put heads together in the fight against malaria.