THE Rotary Club of Tamale has presented large quantities of rapid diagnostic units for the detection of malaria parasites to the Northern Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in Tamale.
The 38,400 pieces of the detectors were donated by the Rotary Club of Notfolk-District 7600, Virginia, USA in collaboration with its Tamale partners.
It is to be distributed to Community Health Planning Services (CHPS) and other public and private health institutions in both the Northern and Upper East regions.
The Northern Regional Director of the GHS, Dr Akwasi Twumasi, who received the items, expressed appreciation to their beneficiaries for their support to the health sector over the years.
According to him, the malaria disease had continued to claim the lives of many people in the area and indicated that, in 2008, 502,000 cases of malaria were recorded, while 708,000 cases were registered in 2009.
“We could not however confirm all the cases because of lack of the diagnostic facilities in our
health centres,” he stated.
Dr Twumasi therefore, described the donation as timely and significant.
He entreated other spirited bodies to complement the government’s efforts to improve health delivery services in the area by extending their support to the sector, especially in deprived rural committees in the region.
The director observed that even though the MOH had supplied quantities of treated mosquito bed nets to pregnant and lactating mothers, they were still not enough to contain the malaria menace.
He, therefore, advised the people to keep their environments clean and to do away with stagnant waters.
The President of the Rotary Club of Tamale, Mr
Joseph Mumuni said members were committed to the improvement of quality of life of the deprived in society, adding that for that reason, it would continue to put smiles on the faces of the underprivileged by providing interventions in various sectors.
Apart from their involvement in the health sector, the club had also sunk a number of boreholes and provided other social amenities in the deprived rural communities in the region.
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