When 9-month-old, GboyegaAdesina, woke up in the middle of the night with high fever and a feeling of nausea, his mother just assumed it was "normal" fever, gave him paracetamol syrup and went back to bed. Gboyega lives with his parents in one of the slums in Kosofe, a water-logged area of Lagos associated with consistent flooding. Life in the one - room apartment is best imagined.
A study done in the area showed that malaria-carrying mosquitoes breed more there. Gboyega and his siblings are unprotected from mosquito bites. They have no mosquito nets and do not go to hospital. Few days later, Gboyega was no more. He was killed by "ordinary malaria." He is now part of the statistics lit to the disease in the country everyday.
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