A Professor of paediatrics at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Olugbenga Mokuolu has said the use sulfaxodine-pyrimethamine by expectant mothers will help reduce maternal anaemia.

According to him, the therapy will also reduce delivery of low birth weight babies and prevent malaria in infants.

Prof Mokuolu spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital at the 114th inaugural lecture of UNILORIN. The lecture was entitled: "Saving the innocent from unsolicited encounters: The worm as a sharp threshing instrument." Mukuolu whose contributions to the study of malaria in children has won international recognition said the use of low cost technologies and care strategies are important panacea for reducing neonatal deaths in Nigeria. "Some of these include the recycle incubation technique, use of oxygen concentrators, and fabricated radiant heaters among others", he said.

He urged the Federal Government to facilitate the scale up of some of these technologies and make them available at secondary and primary levels of health care as a means of further improving access to quality health care.