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"Invest in the Future. Defeat Malaria" |
Gio Linh district (Quang Tri province) responds World malaria Day 24 April 2013 and deploys anti-malaria campaign
The Gio Linh district health center in cooperation with the People's Committee of Vinh Truong commune had recently held a workshop on reviewing malaria control in the first quarter 2013, at the same time deploying anti-malaria campaign in 2013 and respoding World Malaria Day April 25 with theme: "Invest in the Future. Defeat Malaria".
Participants to the workshop included more than 30 staffs of village, district health stations and heads of western communes. At the workshop, Dr. Ho Trong Ninh, director of district health centre reviewed the health activities in general and malaria control in particular. Moreover, with the effort of medical staff, the interest of the leaderships at all levels and the response of the people, malaria control activities achieved good results. Rate of malaria morbidity decreased by 9.43% against the same period of 2011 and 12.72% against 2008. However, the medical staff shouldn't be subjective in malaria control activities because mosquitoes can appear again at areas of rubber forest and the people have not had the awareness about malaria control measures according to the guidance of the Ministry of Health. The workshop gave guidance on the techniques of bednet impregnation for the communal insecticide-spraying teams; at the same time, it also gave the lauching plan by mass media means, broadcasting on radio of communes before deploying the campain of bednet impregnation with the purpose of achieving high rate of insecticide-treated bednets. | Bed-net impregnation |
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