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Use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets can reduce malaria deaths

Speakers say at roundtable

BSS, Dhaka
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said insecticide-treated mosquito nets could help reduce deaths due to malaria effectively.
They said the outbreak of the disease is taking a serious turn in 13 districts particularly in mosquito-infested areas in Chinagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of the country as 98 per cent people of the areas are under the risk of malaria.
The media can be a most powerful apparatus to make people aware of the disease, the speakers said, adding that most of the malaria-caused deaths happen due to lack of awareness among the rural people.
They were addressing a roundtable on Role of the media in controlling malaria’ at Brae Centre in the city.
Vice-President of Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) Parvez Khan chaired the
roundtable jointly organised by the DRU and Brae.
Bureau Chief of AP Farid Hossain spoke on the occasion as the special guest.
The disease attacks over 30 crore people every year in the world, while it claims 11 lakh mostly under five children and expectant women, said Dr Moktadir Kabir, a professional of Brae Health Programme (Malaria), while presenting a keynote paper on the topic of the roundtable.
Professor Imran Bin Yusuf of Chittagong Medical College favoured strengthening monitoring activities in the rural areas, where health workers are providing the malaria-infected people with treatment. The spraying of mosquito killing insecticide needs to be expanded to five percent areas of the country where access to the areas is not easy, said Dr Yusuf.
Dr Mohammad Abul Fayez, director general of Health Directorate, said the government has taken a number of programmes to reduce the risk of malaria by 50 percent by 1012.
Health workers working in remote areas are providing early diagnosis test (EDT) of the disease free of cost within 15 minutes, Dr Fayez said, adding that the recovery becomes possible within three days after the malaria attack.
Dr Rashidul Haque of ICDDR.B said malaria has posed a serious threat to public health and suggested inventing vaccine to check the disease permanently in future.
Farid Hossain said the media networking is a must to create awareness of the disease among rural people especially tribal communities. Scientific terms of the disease should be easier for media men so that they can understand those for reportingon malaria.