The Ministry of Health is proposing for joint efforts in the fight against Malaria among East African Member States.
In an interview yesterday, Anifa Kawooya Bangirana, the State Minister for Health in Charge of General Duties said that they are concerned about the high disease prevalence and concentration among border communities, which raises suspicions that the cases could be imported from the neighboring countries of the regional bloc.
She says that it is high time, the East African Community member states worked on joint campaigns that are concurrently implemented, such that they can collectively and decisively deal with the Malaria epidemics among their citizens. Kawooya on Malaria speaking….
According to disease surveillance reports at the Ministry of Health, the country is recording an unprecedented increase in the number of patients reporting severe forms of Malaria, which is causing a daily average of at least 30 deaths. END.