The Managing Director of Ecobank Ghana, Mr Daniel Sackey at the official press briefing of the 2021 World Malaria Day held on April 28, 2021, at the Ecobank Head Office auditorium under the theme “Zero Malaria, Draw the line against Malaria” said that it is an opportunity to evaluate the progress made so far.
According to him, Ecobank being a financial institution that is keen on impacting positively the health of people living in the communities it operates has partnered with the National Malaria Control Programme as it leads the fight towards the elimination of this endemic disease.
Addressing the stakeholders at the press briefing, Mr Sackey said that World Malaria Day affords the stakeholders in the fight against malaria the opportunity to evaluate their progress and strengthen their resolve in the fight against the disease that remains the highest cause of morbidity in Ghana.
Ghana-Press-Review April 26, 2021 to 10:19 129 APA – Accra (Ghana) The plan by the Accra Medical Centre to ensure that no patient will have to be flown outside Ghana for medical treatment when all pipeline projects of the AMC are put into service and boost health tourism in Ghana from the sub-region is one of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Monday.
The Graphic reports that the Chief Operating Officer of the Accra Medical Centre (AMC), Mr. Moses Clocuh, says no patient would have to be flown outside Ghana for medical treatment when all pipeline projects of the AMC are put into service.
Invest in fight against malaria to fill funding gap AMMREN urges African govts
April 26, 2021 Dr Charity Binka, Executive Secretary of AMMREN
The African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN), a Pan-African advocacy group of journalists and scientists, has called on governments of malaria endemic countries to invest in the fight against malaria to fill the funding gap.
According to the group, unless countries found innovative ways to mobilise adequate resources to bridge the funding gap, malaria resurgence would likely take more lives in Africa.
This was contained in a statement signed and issued by Dr Charity Binka, Executive Secretary of AMMREN, in Accra yesterday on the occasion of this year’s World Malaria Day.
Get malaria eliminated
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), undoubtedly, has pushed concerns with other equally-dangerous diseases to the background. In other words, COVID-19 attracts more attention, probably because it is a pandemic.
What that means is that if we are not careful, certain dangerous dideasesendemic only in certain places can be given free space to devastate or even take lives.
One of such diseases is malaria, which is described as a tropical disease because it is indigenous or endemic in the tropical areas of the world.
Other examples of
disease, yellow fever, and dengue fever.
Malaria is an
infectious disease caused by parasites that invade red blood cells. The parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes, as thevectors, to humans through their bites.