Some Members of Parliament on the Parliamentary Select Committee On Health have toured selected government and private basic schools in the Central Region to conscienctize students on the prevention of malaria.

The laudable exercise saw pupils of the visited schools presented with treated mosquito nets and were equally taught how to use them to aid them prevent the killer disease which globally affect and kills children the most.

Schools visited during the exercise in the region includes the Kanaan International School and Wawase D/A Basic School both in the Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency together with the Philip Quaque Girls Basic School in the Cape Coast South Constituency.

The tour witnessed Members of Parliament like Hon. Patrick Boakye Yiadom, MP for Obuasi East Constituency in the Ashanti Region who doubles as the Vice Chair for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health.

Hon. Dickson Adomako Kissi, MP for Anyaa Sowutuom Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Hon. Roosevelt Alexander Hottordze, MP for Central Tongu in the Volta Region, and Hon. Betty Krosbi Mensah, MP for Afram Plains North Constituency in the Eastern Region as well as the Regional Health Director, Dr. Mrs. Marion Okoh-Owusu and a host other.

MP for Anyaa Sowutuom Constituency, Hon. Dickson Adomako Kissi speaking with Sompa News Eric Annan identified the activity to form part of parliament's defence mechanism resorted to curb the spread of malaria among school going children in the country.

He noted Ghana to be fighting a good course against the spread of malaria, as he revealed the country will soon commence malaria vaccination upon receiving vaccines to that effect, which to him will go a long way to eradicate malaria from the country together with that of the Select Committee's effort.

Paul Boateng, Head of the Case Management Team for the National Malaria Elimination Program asserted the sensitization on malaria prevention to be yielding a desirable impact on the country's recorded malaria cases over the years.

He disclosed Ghana to have recorded a little over 5million confirmed malaria cases with 151 deaths last year, which he described as an improvement to the country's previously recorded malaria cases, substantiating that cases and deaths to malaria has consistently reduced over the years.

On the practice of others using the mosquito net for fishing and fencing their gardens, the Health Practitioner recounted that his outfit having engaged key stakeholders over the bad usage of the net is equally engaging District Assemblies across the country to roll out stringent measures to sanction culprits of the heftily frowned upon offence.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan