Experts warns about an increase in malaria cases

Experts are warning about an increase in not just malaria cases, but an increase in its severe forms in the coming weeks as students start reporting back to school.

Dr Richard Idro, a Malaria Researcher based at Makerere University says that the recent upsurge of malaria in many parts of the country has also seen the disease shifting from affecting very young children aged below five years to school-going children.

Previously, he says, the bulk of severe malaria cases recorded had been among babies, a trend which is now changing, yet most public health interventions focus on children under five and pregnant women.Dr.Idro on malaria speaking…

Idro, who is also a pediatrician at the Mulago National Hospital Acute Care Unit says that even during the school holiday, they have been seeing children present with kidney injury, abnormal bleeding and impairment of consciousness, yet for some time, especially in Kampala such hasn’t been happening. END.