Health Ministry enlisting grassroots support in malaria fight

President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association Patrick Harding takes notes from educational malaria information on display at Thursday’s National Malaria Conference.

The Health Ministry on Thursday emphasised that malaria remained a “serious public health threat” and that moves are being made to win support from the “grassroots” and experts to battle the mosquito-borne disease, especially in the interior mining districts.

“Malaria remains a serious public health threat… the Ministry of Health has been working on this presumption for some time now and this conference is part of that recognition,” said Minster of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran,