TAMTAM-Together Against Malaria, a subsidiary of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated 2,100 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to six communities in Dsanam Sub-District of the Ghana Health Service in the Upper Manya District.
Tamtam works through a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment (ProMPT), which in turn collaborates with the Klo Drivers Alliance, an umbrella organisation of commercial drivers in the Lower Manya Krobo and Upper Manya Krobo districts to prevent malaria in the two districts.
Presenting the nets at Asesewa, Mr Paul Wang, the President of Tamtam, said his outfit decided to donate the mosquito-treated nets to be given out free-of-charge to the people in the communities to help prevent mosquito bites and consequently malaria.
He expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would make good use of them to make the area malaria-free.
Receiving the items on behalf of the people, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Klo-Drivers Alliance, Dr Charles Nyarko, gave the assurance that the nets would be fairly distributed within the communities and thanked Tamtam for the initiative.
Dr Nyarko, who is also the Medical Officer in charge of the St Martins Hospital at Agormanya, said the usage of the mosquito-treated nets would lead to the reduction of malaria cases at the hospital.
The Community Facilitator for ProMPT, Mr Moses Fordjoe, said already some of the nets had been fixed to the beds of most of the beneficiaries.
The Project Manager of the Klo-Drivers Alliance, Okyeame Sakite Offei, said the alliance would continue to fight for the eradication of malaria in the communities within its operational areas.
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