Integrated programs for malaria control should be launched through coordination among different bodies, they said.[break]
According to reports, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sindhuli, Banke, Chitwan, Sarlahi, Nawalparasi, Kailali and Kanchanpur districts are at high risk of malaria.
However, malaria has been eradicated in Solukhumbu, Bhaktaur, Lalitpur, Manang, Dolpa, Humla, Kalikot, Mugu and Sindhupalchowk districts.
In Banke district too, the government is spreading pesticides to kill mosquitoes and launching awareness raising programmes for the eradication of the disease, according to Public Health Officer Andeshwor Singh.
In 2006, the malaria had taken an epidemic form killing at least 33 people in Phattepur, Holiya and Gangapur VDCs in the district. But, after that no one has been fatal victim of the disease in the district.
Likewise, the Nepal Red Cross Society, Banke, has started distributing supanet to the people of 15 VDCs that are at high risk of malaria.
Some 60,000 nets would be distributed, officials of Nepal Red Cross Society said.
The supanets would be distributed in all birthing centers, in the maternity ward in Bheri Zonal Hospital and tuberculosis patients in DOTS centers.
Meanwhile, malaria menace has been decreasing in Jhapa district.
According to reports, a total of 43 malaria patients were detected in the blood tests of 3,591 in the current fiscal year, according to the District Public Health Office. Last year, altogether 209 malaria patients were detected in the district.
Jhapa is the district having the most malaria patients in the country.
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