By Muhammad Aliyu
Dutse
Assistant Project Manager of Jigawa state Malaria Control Booster Project, Dr Surajo Nuhu Kazaure, has said that effective environmental sanitation “can help in controlling malaria” in the country.
He stated this at the weekend at Ringim local government area of Jigawa state during an environmental sanitation rally organised by the state Ministry of Health to commemorate this year’s World Malaria Day celebration.
This was contained in a press release signed by the Public Relations Officer, Malam Jibril, in Dutse.
Kazaure lamented that despite the efforts of the federal, state and donor agencies, 63 per cent of the people who visited hospitals were infected with malaria because of the high density of mosquitoes in many parts of the country.
He said: “The fight against malaria must be a collective fight from our homes to our places of work; we must adopt good sanitation habit because if our environment is clean there will be no breeding ground for mosquitoes.”
On the success so far recorded in Jigawa state under the project, he said over 70 per cent people in the state used mosquito nets, adding that through the state government and development partners’ efforts the mosquito nets were given out directly to the people free-of-charge.
Also speaking, the Director, Primary Health Care in the Ministry of Local Government, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed, disclosed that many local government councils in the state carried out monthly sanitation exercise as part of the efforts to control malaria in the state.