The Malaria Focal Person at the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipal Health Directorate, James Mbaa has said the Directorate would continue to carry out malaria control interventions to ensure the zero malaria goal is achieved.
Mr Mbaa mentioned that education and sensitization on malaria, mass distribution of insecticide-treated nets to pregnant women and children under 5 ears, and spraying of breeding grounds for mosquitoes as some of the interventions put in place to prevent malaria in Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly, EKMA.
” We have the interventions going on, for instance, a mass distribution which is carried out every three years. We supply the ITN to pregnant women and offer education on malaria.
There is a program known as Larvae Source Management. We have moved from tackling adult mosquitoes. are now focusing on the breeding grounds for larvae and spray there,” Mr. Mba said.
Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito that feeds on humans.
The theme for this year’s World Malaria Day is ‘Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement.’
He observed that to deliver zero malaria, there is a need to employ combinations of strategies, look at the problem from many different angles and be innovative.
