Rwanda Launches Search for Investors in Bed Nets Factory

Failure to secure an investor who meets the standards set by World Health Organisation (WHO) is holding back plans to construct a mosquito net plant in Rwanda.

The Government first mooted the idea of constructing a factory to manufacture treated mosquito nets, locally, in 2015 following widespread cases of malaria infections after it emerged that the country had spent a staggering Rwf9 billion on the purchase of 2.6 million substandard mosquito nets from a Danish firm, Netprotect.

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