By Laudia Sawer
Prampram, April 30, GNA – The Ningo-Prampram District Health Directorate has recorded a significant improvement in the number of malaria cases recorded in the area, as the disease dropped to the second position on the top 10 Out-Patient Department (OPD) cases in 2024.
Clinical data from the Directorate available to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) indicated that in 2024, a total of 9,387 uncomplicated malaria tested positive cases, representing 11 per cent of the top 10 diseases, were seen compared with the 12,595 malaria cases, representing 14 per cent of OPD cases, recorded in 2023.
Mrs Patience Ami Mamattah, the Ningo-Prampram District Director of Health Services, indicated that in 2024, all the 4,141 antenatal registrants received the free long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLIN), while 93 per cent of the 6,426 children under five receiving the Rebulla 2 and measles vaccinations also received the nets.
Mrs. Mamattah said the distribution of the nets would continue among schoolchildren, pregnant women, children under age two, and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
She encouraged people to sleep under the treated nets and use other preventive measures to help reduce malaria incidents further.
She urged community members to ensure that their environments were always clean, while the directorate continued to improve malaria clinical diagnoses and treatment through continuous capacity building of staff and providing needed leadership.
The Health Director gave the assurance that, “we will continue our current malaria elimination agenda through multisectoral collaboration with other sectors in the fight against malaria.”
Meanwhile, the 2024 clinical data also revealed that other top 10 OPD diseases in Ningo-Prampram include acute urinary tract infection, typhoid fever, anaemia, hypertension, and skin diseases.
Others are rheumatism and other joint pains, gynaecological conditions, diarrhoea, and other diseases.
The top 10 OPD cases accounted for 88,574 of all diseases seen in the area in 2024.
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