Key highlights
Enhancing Health Access and Strengthening Responsiveness:
• From January to September 2024, 4.2 million outpatient consultations were provided for essential health services.
• During this period, skilled birth attendants supported about 43,000 normal deliveries.
Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Epidemic Prone Disease Outbreaks:
• Cumulatively, 52 suspected cholera cases have been reported, no deaths recorded since the onset of the outbreak. Sixteen (16) culture positive cases have been reported out of 49 samples received at the National Public Health Laboratory.
• Flooding has affected 1.39 million people, displaced 348,000, submerged 58 health facilities and led to 95 related snake bites.
• IDSR reporting in Week 44 saw improvements with timeliness at 61% and completeness at 91%, However reporting in some states remained low.
Providing Quality Essential Clinical Health Services:
• Between January and September 2024, stabilization centers treated over 8,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications.
• During the same period, around 198 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence received clinical management services for rape.
Improving Resilience- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MPHSS):
• Since January 2024, approximately 7,900 individuals in confl ict-aff ected areas received mental health and psychosocial support services.