Despite significant strides in the fight against the spread of malaria, Vector Control Services faces several difficulties, ignorance by the general public about the disease as well as a shortage of equipment.
“Our population is not very educated when it comes to disease,” VCS Director Reyaud Rahman said at a commemoration of Malaria Day in the Americas on Wednesday evening under the theme “Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria.”
The commemoration, organised by the VCS under the Ministry of Health at the Regency Suites on Hadfield Street,