http://www.newsportng.com.ng Following the need to curtail the plague of mosquito bite in Kaduna State, Governor Nasir El-rufai in collaboration with the National Malaria elimination Programme with funding support from the global fund malaria project, has commenced the process of the 2022 Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) mass campaign, in the State.
The State’s Health Promotion Officer, Kaduna State Ministry of Education, Maryam I. Kure, made this known during a media parley held in Kaduna on Wednesday.
According to her, the ministry will flag off campaign on 6th July, 2022, after which a total number of 5.5 million mosquito nets will be distributed to citizens, to help reduce the effect of mosquito related illness, such as malaria.
“We have a total number of 5.5 million nets to distribute to the citizens of Kaduna State. We have trained our personnels in the state level and this week we are going to step down the training to the Local Government Level, after which, we are going down to the community level whereby the distributors will be trained alongside the town announcers, the security and other managers. These people will be going House-House to distribute the net to citizens of Kaduna State across the 23 LGAs.”
“They should be rest assured that the people will get the net because we are going to distribute about 5.5 million to ensure that they collect it. They should make use of it because some of them will collect and dump it without using it while some use it for other purposes.” She said.
Also addressing Journalists shortly after the event, The Director, Technical and Programme For Society For Family Health, Mr. John Ocholi, said the organization is working with 10,500 personnels across all the Local Governments, including supervisors, distributors and Civil Society Organization for effective result.
He said “In 2019, we worked with Kaduna State Government and distributed about 5.1 million nets this time around we plan to distribute 5.45 million net . We intend to go from door to door across every Community in the state to ensure that everybody in the state get at least a net.
“In total, we are working with 10,500 as personnels across the state in the 23LGAs, supervisors, distributors, town announcers in the community we also have CSO who are going to mobilize People, conveyors who are going to be moving with the trucks from one place to another so it is a huge task.” Ocholi said.
Addressing the rumor and risk of contracting the novel Covid-19 pandemic during the exercise, the Media Communication Manager for Society For Family Health, Mr. Gbue Denen Daniel, said distributors will be trained on relevant measures to ensure nobody is exposed to such danger during and after the Programme.
He urged beneficiaries to ensure the proper use of the ITNs, noted that temporary discomfort ranging from skin itching, rashes, redness of the eyes among others may be experienced if mishandled.
