DEALING WITH MALARIA

ROLLING BACK MALARIA

Malaria is a disease/sickness caused by malaria-carrying mosquito bitten and it is one of the major problems facing the Africa especially Nigeria.

According to the findings by impeccable specialist,  60% of death in Nigeria General hospitals especially children’s are caused by malaria. Of 525 deaths resulting from specialist hospital in the year 2011, about 65 were children under five.

According to the Director (Improving Malaria Diagnostic) United State Agency for International Development supported organisation, Lius Benavente, Nigeria citizens are the largest exporters of malaria in the world. And the world as whole can overcome malaria if they start to defeat and control it (malaria) right from Nigeria.

He said Nigerian were enterprising and travel a lot to other countries to transact business. Unknowingly, they spread malaria parasite wherever they go. For the world to control malaria, it must be eradicated in Nigeria.

Nigeria accounts for 25% of global malaria cases. The figures supply by Carter Centre Malaria Control Programme shows that over 300,000 Nigerians-mostly-children die of malaria attack each year. Malaria is responsible for 66% of all clinic visit in the country and 30% of hospital admission. Also account for 25% of deaths in children under one year old, and 11% of maternal death – this is a heavy burden on Nigeria’s families, communities, health system and workforce.

We need to keep our children healthy so they can learn in school and become highly productive members of the society. The adult need to be healthy so they can work, provide for their families and contribute to economic growth.

REMEDIES/SOLUTIONS TO MALARIA

ü Sleeping on insecticide-treated beds

ü Improve diagnosis

ü Get highly effective anti-malaria drug

ü Spray interior walls of houses with long lasting insecticide.

ü Pregnant women are encouraged to get two doses of an antimalaria to prevent them from getting malaria.

ü Also pregnant women should go for Intermittent Preventive Treatment (ITP) through antenatal clinic.

ITP can prevent a child from contracting malaria before birth. It involves providing pregnant women with at least two doses of an anti-malaria drug at each scheduled antenatal visit after the first trimester.

ü Also the issue of proper diagnosis is a major challenge of eradication of malaria, clinical diagnoses accuracy is very poor, rather, the prompt parasitological confirmation by microscopy should be used, and where that is not available, rapid diagnostic test(RTDs) is to be used in all patients suspected to have malaria before treatment.

In addition to this all hands must be on deck to fight malaria by making sure that our environment is clean and devoid of where mosquito can breed.

Join this fight of eradicating malaria and let us all live healthy.

If you have any need of help, assistance, question or comment or how to get any of the things mentioned above, please send mail to: goodhealth4allnations@gmail.com or remimylove1@yahoo.com utill then have a wonderful and malaria free day, bye for now.