The Community Health Department of the School of Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has organized a sensitization workshop on malaria for residents of the Bonso KNUST Electoral Area. The workshop highlighted the causes, symptoms and prevention of malaria. The assemblyman for the area, William Kwame Fordjour, said malaria is a deadly disease and that it is high time Ghanaians embarked on measures to curb it.
He said it behoved the residents to keep their environment clean, since mosquitoes breed in unhygienic environment. Mr. Fordjour said as part of measures to reduce malaria in the community, the Community Health Department last month trained 40 community medicine distributors at KNUST to administer malaria drugs, especially Artesunate Amodiaquine. The Head of the Community Health Department, Rev. Dr. Edmund Laryea Brown appealed to the media to liaise with government in the fight against malaria for the socio-economic development of the country.
