President Donald Ramotar distributed treated bed nets at the Lethem Hospital to doctors, residents of area and the wider Rupununi region, while on a tour of the health facility on Saturday, according to the Government Information Agency.
The bed nets which arrived in a stock of about 900 are part of the ongoing intervention to combat the malaria scourge, GINA said.
“It has been found that these nets have been making a big impact in the fight against malaria… the intention is to have complete elimination of malaria and we are working constantly towards that,” President Ramotar said minutes before the handing over of the nets, according to GINA.
The release added that the Health Ministry’s Vector Control Services Unit is carrying out fogging exercises to reduce the mosquito population.
