Residents of Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State have joined their counterparts across the state to commend Anambra State Government and its partners for the ongoing mass distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets.
Three-point-eight million insecticide treated nets are being distributed free of cost by the state government in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme, Malaria Consortium and through the support of GiveWell open philanthropic funding.
ABS newscrew monitored the exercise in Njikoka Local Government Area and reports that village by village they went, gate by gate they approached, door by door they knocked, seeking to distribute the nets to the various households in the council area in a bid to say farewell to malaria scourge in the state.
Sleeping inside Insecticide-treated nets is approved by experts as a guarantee from bites of mosquitoes that transmit malaria.
At each compound, the net distributors will get the details of the different families and their contacts to document the progress and inform them on how many nets will be given to each family.
The excitement was obvious as they were taught the best ways to properly use the nets.
For the beneficiaries of the nets in Nawfia and Abagana Communities where ABS visited, including Mr. Sunday Nwankwo, Amaka Iloakasia, Chinwendu Obinna a nursing mother and Ubediat Sulaiman, the distribution is commendable and long overdue considering the menace of mosquitoes in their families.
Other respondents, including Mr. John Anuntu asked government at all levels to address the economic situation of the country, so that while fighting malaria, they can also fight hunger.
Every two persons in a household, receive one net.
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