Cameroon: 15 550 Community Health Workers to Reinforce Malaria Fight
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The Post (Buea)
10 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008
Victorine Biy Yongka
Some 15, 550 community health workers have been trained to intensify the fight against malaria through a door-to-door sensitisation and treatment of simple malaria cases.
The community relay agents in the different provinces of the country will be in possession of malaria medications known in French as the 'Artemisinine Combine Therapies', ACT. While launching the campaign at the Yaounde Hilton, October 8, Public Health Minister, Andre Mama Fouda, said the medications that are destined for patients should be judiciously used.
He warned that community health workers who will not use the drugs wisely will be suspended.The cost of the medications differs from one sale agent to the other. However, they are being put at the disposal of the public at prices that are not more than FCFA 600 at public hospital pharmacies and relay agents. The price may go up to FCFA 1000 at private pharmacies, The Post learnt.
Minister Mama Fouda said that the strategy is aimed at reducing the disease which kills more than AIDS. He reiterated that the programme is equally meant to reduce the rate of infant and maternity mortality to 50percent.
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While presenting the strategic programme, the permanent Secretary of the National Malaria Control Committee, Dr. Ndong a Bessong Prosper, said the campaign will save lives. He insisted that the success of the campaign will largely depend on the active participation of communities.
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