Mr Okello Douglas Peter Okao, the Gulu district speaker has warned that expectant mothers and children should be fully supported to see that they sleep under treated mosquito Net considering that the outbreak of Malaria in Northern Uganda has so far claimed 60 lives with 80,000 cases registered in Gulu district alone.
He said, “People who flood health centres and need to be taken good care off are the expectant mothers and children.”
He urged people, even those who sleep on mats to use nets noting that some people think that mats should only be used on a mattress.
The speaker who was on Monday addressing patients from Lalogi Health centre IV said that many people were abusing the mosquito nets and using them for straining kwete, a locally brew while others use them as curtains on the doors of their pit latrines.
Reports from Lalogi health centre IV Laboratory indicate that there were 217 confirmed cases of malaria by 20th of July 2015.
President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday while commissioning Gulu- Atiak Road echoed that ministry of Health should visit northern Uganda as fast as possible to see how to support the various health facilities in fighting malaria.
This newspaper has also exclusively learnt that the president has directed the ministry of health to begin planning the Indoor Residual spraying of the mosquitoes.
This follows appeals by Gulu district chairman, Mr Ojara Martin Mapenduzi who told the president that there was a rising death tool associated to malaria.
