 The world commemorates Malaria Day to raise awareness about the mosquito-borne disease and examine efforts towards the prevention, treatment control and the elimination of the disease. According to World Health Organization, over 600,000 deaths from malaria were reported in Africa in 2021. However, as Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark this year's World Malaria Day, the Director of Medical Services of the Hospital's Management Board in Kainu State, Dr. Suleiman Hamza, said that stakeholders in the health sector need to have a central coordination in the war against malaria. Over the years, Nigeria has been fighting to put an end to the deadly malaria scourge. According to the latest World Malaria Report, Nigeria accounts for about 31.9% of global malaria deaths, which is approximately 200,000 deaths in 2021, and over 60 million people are infected yearly. With this global report, the war against malaria is yet to be won in Nigeria. According to Dr. Suleiman Hamza, he says that the dirty environment across the country is a major challenge to stem in malaria scourge. We are doing a lot to keep the environment clean, but it seems the people are not cooperating fully. For instance, in some areas of Kainu City, people will bring up all the ratios done from their compound and gutters around them and blow them on the streets. On the streets of Lagos, residents share how often they take ill with diagnosis pointed to malaria and the remedy they apply. Sometimes in a month, like once in a month or twice in a month, as an adult once in a month, but the kids, I can count. I'm sure that their body temperature is always high. Sometimes I take anti-malaria, and if it's not work for me, I use to take all these herbs because of the environment, the water, so the mosquito is too much. For me, it's maybe twice in two months, but once it happens, although I'm not the remedies, I can go to pharmacists, but before then I have to do a kind of full lab test to know the level of such. So when I go to the pharmacy, we know the right medication for me, it would prescribe, and once I take it, I'm okay. They have malaria, because I take it off myself often, so I do go for check-ups and stuff like that. So not really. I don't really have secrets like that. Sometimes I use normal herbs, like normal herbs, sometimes I go to the hospitals, but normally I used to go to the hospitals. Too much to get malaria, but anytime I feel like weak or headache, so there's one pharmacy on our side that I recognize where. So when I go there, the man would treat me, you give me the normal malaria drugs. So taking it for days, the thing I've gone. I take out this agbo, they call it little abas, the typhoon, they will give me the typhoon, the partial, because the malaria, the agbo is hot. When we mix it together, when I take it, I will see the effect in my body. So later I go to the gym and work out, I do exercise a lot. Cures. Dr. Suleiman discourages the use of herbs for the treatment of malaria. He explains that individuals with underlying health challenges could face serious complications from the use of unscientifically proven herbs to treat malaria. Treatment with herbs is not encouraged. I do not encourage treatment of malaria with herbs because of a lot of issues, sterility, dosage, and people with comorbidity, people with renal or liver dysfunction can have problems with herbs, so I do not encourage it. Of recent, I know in the ADU area, it has been tried, it is formulated in form of a subject that could be dipped into warm water and whatever. So that is a scientifically proven herb that can be used in the treatment of malaria. But the common herbs that once a person has malaria will go to the bush and then put up some leaves and possibly take it, it is not encouraged. This year's World Malaria Day theme, harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives, is no doubt a global wake-up call to all health sectors across the world to innovate new vector control approaches, anti-malaria medicines, and other tools to speed up the pace of progress against malaria. Ingozika or HSE, plus TV News.