As part of activities lined up to celebrate World Malaria Day, a group has sensitised residents of the Inwalar Janbango community in Katsina State on the importance of environmental sanitation and personal hygiene.
During the program held at Jino Ward on Thursday, the group also offered some health talks on ways to contact malaria and how to prevent it.
The group also distributed free mosquito-treated nets to most of the houses in the community.
The convener of the programme Fatih Isaac represented by a staff nurse at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, Merry Jocob said the scheme says there are plans to visit other communities in days for similar intervention.
“Besides that, we spoke on environmental sanitation after which we went to the field and did the practical work for them so that they would continue after we left,” she said.
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In the meantime, a resident doctor in the community Shuaibu Zubairu described the program as timely.
On his part, the Ward Head of the Inwalar Janbango community Mannir Sani appreciated the group’s efforts.
“We are really grateful. We thank God for this timely intervention, we have now been sensitised and we are already making progress on environmental sanitation, and personal and house hygiene,” he noted.
The World Malaria Day is celebrated April 25. The day instituted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) member states during the World Health Assembly of 2007 is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment to malaria prevention and control.
