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Category: Health
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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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Research conducted by the Biotechnology and Nuclear Research Institute (BNARI) of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has revealed extreme resistance to insecticides among Anopheles mosquitoes in a small cocoa-growing village in the Ashanti Region.
The research conducted at Atatam in the Adansi Asokwa District showed that there were two major malaria vectors, one dominating during the dry season and the other during the rainy season.
In many communities, there is only one transmission season, usually the rainy season.
The Director of the BNARI, Dr Michael Osae, made this known when he shared the findings with the chiefs and the people of Atatam as part of a malaria awareness campaign.
The District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) is financing the construction of infrastructure projects in some metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Ashanti, Greater Accra and Eastern regions.
The projects involve the construction of new physical structures (mainly administration blocks and staff bungalows), as well as single court edifices.
The fund is expending a total of GH¢94.7 million on 30 administration blocks, GH¢13.6 million on senior staff bungalows for the assemblies as well as GH¢15.9 million on 11 court buildings.
Out of the 30 administration blocks, which come in the form of two-storey structures for district assemblies and three-storey for municipal assemblies, the Ashanti Region will have 14 projects, the Eastern Region, seven, and the Greater Accra Region, nine.