Malaria: Some people collect mosquito treated nets and use them as fishing nets — Expert vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
To mark this year’s World Malaria Day held under the theme: ‘Zero Malaria Starts With Me’, a coalition of partners, including the World Health Organization , Malaria Society of Nigeria, African Media and Malaria Research Network , Malaria No More and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, called on governments to commit to tracking progress in cutting the number of malaria cases and deaths from the disease.
Asked how he and his family were protecting against mosquito bites, John replied, “Once a while, we spray the room with insecticide but we cannot afford to do that on daily basis”. Malaria, although preventable and treatable, can be life-threatening. It is a blood disease caused by a Plasmodium parasite transmitted to humans by anopheles mosquitoes.
Somoye, who lamented that 70 per cent of Nigerians at both general and tertiary hospitals are malaria patients, lamented a situation where communities wait for rain to fall so as to dump their refuse into the drainages and government is not focusing on drainages.“If there is mosquito, there will be malaria. It’s a pity we have refused to roll back malaria even though we have a programme called Roll Back Malaria. We have been rolling malaria forward since 1980″, the retiree said.
“Every citrus fruit retains water, and when they retain water, they breed mosquito. So, you cannot use your compound as a plantation for banana trees. Some use mineral bottles to do their wall fencing. It is wrong. It will retain water and also breed mosquito”.
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