31 October 2008
The Acting Program Manager of the National Malaria Control Program at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Tolbert Nyeswah said his institution is training 25 medical doctors.
Speaking to this paper yesterday at the compound of the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, he said the doctors are being trained in a three-day workshop organized by his agency.
Mr. Nyenswah said the training is intended to provide some basic information to medical doctors as to how to administer the newly introduced malaria drugs "ACTs'. He said the 25 doctors came from top hospitals in the 15 sub political divisions of the country.
Tolbert told this paper that most Liberians are fully unaware of the new malaria drugs and the way to use it, adding "It takes trained doctors like those we are to train today to explain to the people about the importance, usage and administration of the drugs."
The NMCP Acting Manager said the malaria control program as of next week will distribute treated bed mosquitoes nets in Bong County and to eight health centers across the county.
Mr. Tolbert indicated that the distribution will mainly focus on pregnant women and children under the age of five. "Pregnant women and children under the age of five are our target, because these are the ones who are mainly victimized by the deadly disease, malaria," he said.
He said the distribution will be done household to household, and that no house will be left out in the distribution exercise.
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