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BY: Severious Kale-Dery & Kwadwo Baffoe Donkor
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The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) has set up sentinel sites at selected locations around the country to monitor the resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides.
An epidemiologist with the NMCP, Dr Nana Yaw Peprah, has revealed that insecticide resistance in mosquitoes had emerged not only in Ghana but in other malaria-endemic areas of the world.
However, Dr Peprah said, new strategies had been developed to overcome the challenge in order to win the fight against malaria.
Speaking to the
Daily Graphic after a recent study found super resistance to some insecticides among mosquitoes in a small cocoa growing community, the epidemiologist said in such areas, new chemicals had been added to insecticide treated nets to increase their effectiveness.
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The Deputy Director, Public Health (DDPH) in the Ashanti Region, Dr Michael Rockson Adjei, has emphasised that Larval Source Management (LSM) is crucial in malaria control intervention.
He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to embrace this measure when its implementation began.
Dr Adjei was speaking to journalists at the end of a one-day LSM training held for health workers in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, last Friday.
The training, which was held in Kumasi, was organised by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in partnership with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) under its National Malaria Control Programme (NAMCOP) and Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR).
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