AngloGold Ashanti on Wednesday organized a day?s workshop in Bawku to sensitize stakeholders on malaria prevention and control to reduce malaria infections in the area.
The workshop educated stakeholders, including health workers, to help in monitoring malaria cases in the various hospitals referred to as sentinel facilities.
It was also to build the capacities of workers of the Ghana Health Service on the programme and how they could help disseminate information on malaria prevention, control and treatment in the area.
The workshop was funded by the Global Fund, an international organization working to reduce diseases including malaria, tuberculoses and HIV and AIDS in the Bawku Municipality.
The participants were taken through the history, mission, and objective of the new sentinel facility programme, community benefits and surveillance activities.
In a presentation Mr Abraham Takura, the Upper East Regional Zonal Manager of AngloGold, said the indoor residual spray (IRS) was one of the critical areas the agency was focused on.
He explained that the IRS was a process where inner dueling of places had been sprayed to prevent community members from getting mosquito bites and later malaria.
Mr Takura said the IRS was aimed at reducing malaria to the barest minimum and and that the programme had been scaled up to cover the Bawku Municipal, Pusiga, Binduri and Garu Tempani districts of the Upper East Region.
Madam Rosemod Azure, Bawku Municipal Health Director, commended the facilitators and participants at the programme and urged them to take the training serious because they were the first point of call in matters related to health in their areas. GNA
