Kampala — APAC residents are to get 65,000 free mosquito nets, a health ministry official has said. Dr. Medard Rukaari said the United Nations children's organisation, Unicef, would distribute the nets during the Christmas season.

Addressing LC5 councillors at a workshop in Omodi Hotel on Tuesday, Rukaari said Apac had the highest malaria incidence in the country.

He said priority would be given to children, pregnant mothers and sub-counties reporting more malaria cases.

Rukaari said community medicine distribution teams and LCs, who had been trained to collect data and register the beneficiaries, would give out the nets.

The district health inspector, Sabiti Mbabazi Atenyi, cautioned the residents against selling the items.

He said there were reports that some people had turned the nets into wedding gowns.

The councillors, however, were displeased that some sub-counties had been left out of the campaign.

The district LC5 vice-chairman, Bob Okae, said the entire district should benefit.