NGO Trains Care Givers For Malaria Patients

A Port Harcourt-based Non Governmental Organisation, Canaan Peace Women  and Community Development Initiative (CAPWOCODI), has stressed the need for a grassroot campaign on the dangers of malaria in Rivers State.

The executive director of the organization, Ambassador (Mrs) Christie Iwezor who said this during an orientation programme for role model mothers on malaria prevention organized by the organization in conjunction with Civil Society Organizations in Port Harcourt said that people in the rural must be sensitised on preventive measures against malaria.

Iwezor described malaria as a deadly disease affecting pregnant women and children daily, added that the workshop was organised to enable the participants  drawn from different communities in Emohua, Obio/Akpor city Local government areas to act as first-aiders in their various community .

Also speaking, Mr Sammis Eke who represented the programme manager, Roll Back-Malaria, Rivers State Ministry of Health Dr (Mrs) Roseline Apah-Dulu , said that the participants were selected from the communities to intervene in crisis involving malaria in their respective area.

He said that the situation was part of the effort of the National Malaria Control programme to fight the suorge of malaria in the country.

Eke also promised that the trainees will be given the necessary support to enable them discharge their work effectively.

The state co-ordinator of Association of civil society organsiations in Malaria control immunisation and nutrition (ACOMIN) Pastor John Maduenyi urged the trainees to always refer serious cases to health centres in their respective  communities.

In their speeches, the malaria focal persons in Obio/Akpor, Emohua and Port Harcourt city local government areas urged for support.