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Angola: Malaria Kills 200 People in Cunene Province

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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

25 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008

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Two hundred people died of malaria from January to March of the current year in the districts of Kuanhama, Namacunde, Ombadja,Coroca and Cuvelai of southern Cunene province.

The information was released Friday by the head of the programme of control to malaria, Lucas Chimbundo, who told the press on the occasion of the African Day for the Eradication of Malaria, marked on April 25, having affirmed that during this period the Health Services of the province diagnosed 17,578 cases this pathology.

According to the source, to commemorate this date, the department of control to malaria programmed the distribution of over 80 mosquito nets to children from zero to five years old, pregnant women at the emergence ward, extern and pre-birth check ups to shelter centres of families affected by the floods, among other health units of the region.

He also informed that with the distribution of mosquito nets the sanitation structures aims at working to develop activities of mobilising resources to respond to the outbreak of the disease in the post flood phase.

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