A district health inspector in Kafue district says the use of insecticide mosquito nets and spraying of houses has greatly contributed to the reduction of malaria admissions in the district.
Kafue District Health Inspector Libandila Mulambwa says this year’s parasitological survey conducted in Kafue has revealed that very few people have the malaria parasite in their blood following tests conducted at clinics.
Mr. Mulambwa attributed this to the usage of and acceptance of insects treated nets which is a good preventive measure of malaria.
He however noted that the ministry is still facing challenges with the indoor residual spraying exercise were some residents complain of skin irritation once their house is sprayed and inconvenience of shifting of household property whenever they are about to spray inside a house.
Mr. Mulambwa was speaking at a meeting held to form a District Malaria Commission organized by Kafue District Health Management Team (RDHMT) held at Highway Lodge in Kafue today.
Mr. Mulambwa further said a survey conducted to categorize mosquitoes in April this year in some parts of Kafue town and Chilanga’s Freedom township revealed that 1% of these were Anopheles mosquitoes that cause malaria and 99 percent were Culex mosquitoes that do not cause malaria.
He noted that these findings show that very few mosquitoes which cause malaria were present in Kafue, a development the district can boost of as an achievement towards the fight against the disease.
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ok but i would have loved to read the full article of the research that was done where only 1% of the mosquitoes in kafue cause malaria.LT can yu follow-up on this one……it sounds interesting .
ma bloggers, muli kuti? kukonda chabe nkani zama pulandalas nama politikis.
reasons, because people have no money to pay for the medical services at the hospital.
Indeed there are few mosquitos that cause malaria.i was being biten by a lot of mosquito last year since i came to kafue from july,2012. to somewhere dec,2013. till jan wen i was given a mosquito net. yet still i had no signs or even symptom of malaria.