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The Technical working group on Childhood Killer Diseases known as Niger State Action Committee on CKD (NASSCKD) has warned that inadequate funding to IMCI resulting in stock out of Amoxicillin DT and Zn-LO-ORS may increase possibilities of Under-five death in Niger State.
The committee said Primary Health Care Centers (PHCs) across the state have stocked out of Amoxycillin DT and Zinc LO-ORS as 19, 000 children out of 195,000 may die before their 5th birthday according to the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey of 2013
The NSACCKD, TWG meeting, which expressed fear that there could be increased under-five mortality in the state held its meeting on