Kampala — ALL schools in Kabale district have been sprayed with Icon pesticide that kills mosquitoes that spread malaria. The district director of health services, Dr. Patrick Tusiime revealed that the two-week exercise was completed on Saturday.

"We sprayed the schools without problems. We are now moving to zones and our target is to spray all the homesteads."

Dr. John Bahana, a health official, also said that the local people were receptive and they anticipated completing the exercise by March.

This is the second time the district is having the spraying campaign, the first having been in August last year.

The exercise is being done by Research Triangle Institute, a body contracted by the health ministry to carry out indoor spraying. It is part of President George Bush's Presidential Malaria Initiative.

Tusiime noted that Kabale district had been identified because of the high death rates due to malaria.