Insecticide-treated mosquito nets can reduce deaths due to malaria

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Professionals of national and international healthcare institutions at a roundtable recently said insecticide-treated mosquito nets could help reduce deaths due to malaria effectively in the country, reports BSS.
They said the outbreak of the disease is taking a serious turn in 13 districts particularly in mosquito-infested areas in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of the country as 98 per cent people of the areas are under the risk of malaria.
The media can be the most powerful apparatus to make the people aware about the disease, the professionals said adding that most of the malaria-caused deaths happen due to lack of awareness among the rural people.
The professionals were addressing the roundtable on 'Role of the media in controlling malaria' at BRAC Centre in the city.
Vice-President of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) Parvez Khan chaired the roundtable, jointly organised by the DRU and the BRAC. Professors of different medical colleges, representatives of WHO and ICDDR,B, civil surgeons and journalists participated in the roundtable.
The disease attacks over 300 million (30 crore) people every year in the world, while it claims 1.1 million mostly under five children and expectant women, said Dr Moktadir Kabir, a professional of BRAC Health Programme (Malaria), while presenting a keynote paper on the topic at the roundtable.