Health launches malaria scheme
Jun 29, 2003
THE ministry of health has launched a National Voucher Scheme Pilot (NVSP) in Mbarara district in a bid to eradicate malaria, the highest killer of pregnant women and children of five years and below
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
THE ministry of health has launched a National Voucher Scheme Pilot (NVSP) in Mbarara district in a bid to eradicate malaria, the highest killer of pregnant women and children of five years and below.
Mbarara and Mbale are the pilot districts.
Launching the scheme at Kabuyanda sub-county headquarters in Isingiro South county recently, the commissioner of health, Dr. Denis Rwamafa, said about 159 out of 1,000 babies die of malaria at birth.
In a speech read by Michael Okua, the senior entomologist-malaria control programme in the ministry, Dr. Rwamafa said the NVSP would be launched in 14 health centres in Mbarara.
He said in collaboration with Commercial Marketing Strategies, a condom distributor, the ministry had stocked insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITMs) in over 1,800 shops to benefit about 150,000 pregnant women and children.
CMS social marketing director Karen Bulsara said the ministry would distribute mosquito nets in the 14 centres at a discount of sh4,000.
Representing the district chairman, Fred Kamugira, Mbarara LC5 secretary for health and social services Clare Kabacenga urged women to embrace the theme “Unite to Fight Malaria†and battle the disease.
She said malaria killed 505 out of 100,000 mothers during delivery.
THE ministry of health has launched a National Voucher Scheme Pilot (NVSP) in Mbarara district in a bid to eradicate malaria, the highest killer of pregnant women and children of five years and below.
Mbarara and Mbale are the pilot districts.
Launching the scheme at Kabuyanda sub-county headquarters in Isingiro South county recently, the commissioner of health, Dr. Denis Rwamafa, said about 159 out of 1,000 babies die of malaria at birth.
In a speech read by Michael Okua, the senior entomologist-malaria control programme in the ministry, Dr. Rwamafa said the NVSP would be launched in 14 health centres in Mbarara.
He said in collaboration with Commercial Marketing Strategies, a condom distributor, the ministry had stocked insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITMs) in over 1,800 shops to benefit about 150,000 pregnant women and children.
CMS social marketing director Karen Bulsara said the ministry would distribute mosquito nets in the 14 centres at a discount of sh4,000.
Representing the district chairman, Fred Kamugira, Mbarara LC5 secretary for health and social services Clare Kabacenga urged women to embrace the theme “Unite to Fight Malaria†and battle the disease.
She said malaria killed 505 out of 100,000 mothers during delivery.