The World Health Organization said it will send leprosy medicines to Nigeria early next week after solving the problem of treatment tests that caused it since the beginning of January 2024.
For a whole year, leprosy was cut off from the injured in Nigeria, including children who cause the disease in physical disability.
It is classified as a chronic and prepared disease, caused by a type of bacteria called leprosy, affecting the skin, eyes, and respiratory mucosa, and leads to serious physical abnormalities.
According to the World Health Organization, leprosy is spread in more than 120 countries from around the world, and 200,000 injuries are reported annually in various regions.
In Nigeria, which is one of the most populated African countries, the number of injuries reported is between one thousand and 10 thousand cases annually.
Drug stocks in Nigeria Hospitals have been exhausted since the beginning of last year due to the administrative bureaucracy related to the delay in supply regulations and treatment tests provided to drug manufacturers in India and Indonesia.
Reuters news agency quoted the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Leprosy as saying that the delay that has suffered the suffering of many Nigerians is clear evidence of the weakness of the global system that has witnessed the depletion of treatment stocks from India, Indonesia and Brazil in recent years.
According to Nigerian media, the suffering of people with leprosy has tragicly worsened during the recent period due to the interruption of the drug.
The head of the Nigerian Nigerian Odouh’s Nigeria Odouh said that this is the first time he sees strange and painful situations, as patients who belong to the poor classes cannot obtain a life -saving medicine.