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On this occasion, the head of the municipality of Obuasi, the Hon. Elijah Adansi-Bonah, DCE Representative Obuasi East, Operations Manager at Anglogold Ashanti, Brett Thompson, AGA Sustainability Officer, Nana Ampofo Bekoe, Nananom, Heads of Various Security Agencies, Members of the Board Assembly, teachers and students, as well as the general public.
L & # 39; Hon. Elijah Adansi-Bonah, Chief Executive Officer of Obuasi, congratulated Anglogold Ashanti for putting in place the malaria control program, which has been very successful over the years since its introduction in 2006.
He said that the exercise had contributed immensely to the reduction of malaria infection and that it was one of the best tasks of cooperation in the area of accountability. defined by any mining company in the world. He paid tribute to Nananom and Assembly members for their supportive role of encouraging community members to accept the spraying exercise with the help of residues at the same time. interior, to which some residents of the municipality objected.
L & # 39; Hon. Elijah Adansi-Bonah also encouraged citizens to show a high commitment in the fight against malaria, thus participating in all kinds of cleansing exercises. He also requested that annual malaria testing and treatment be conducted among all high school students in Obuasi.
The director of programs of Anglogold Ashanti, responsible for the fight against malaria (AGAMAL), said that AGA had reacted to the alarming rate of cases of malaria reported in the Communities, created in 2006 (AGAMAL) to help stop the situation that caused many deaths in Obuasi.
He stated that the initial goal was to reduce malaria cases by 50% in the first two years, which has been extremely well achieved, with a 74% reduction in two years since its introduction. He added that the AGA Malaria Control Unit was currently conducting spraying exercises in 16 districts of Ghana and had already sprayed the entire Upper West region, 3 districts in the region. Upper East and 2 districts of Ashanti region, namely the Obuasi Municipal District and Obuasi District East. Global Fund, Inking IRS and Anglogold Ashanti.
He also said that the spraying exercise had been extended to prison centers in 2018 and that he would soon start in all prisons in the country in order to protect detainees and prison officers.
He again revealed that Obuasi was now at a crushing reduction point of 16% and was aiming for a zero point in the next few years. He also encouraged the general public to adopt the three (3) T procedure, namely Test, Treat and Tract, to fight the disease and maintain their own environment.
Mr. Brett Thompson, Head of Operations at Anglogold Ashanti, said the theme of the occasion "Zero Malaria Begins with Me" underlines the call for action for concrete action to be taken individually and collectively to end the disease to protect the physical, economic and social rights of citizens. existence.
He called on the cooperation agencies to solicit support to generate enough resources to put in place adequate policies to defeat malaria in Obuasi.
Mr Thompson said that malaria remains a major public health problem in Africa and Ghana in particular, which constitutes a major obstacle to socio-economic development. According to him, more than 90% of the Ghanaian population is in danger and children and pregnant women would be more vulnerable to the disease.
He also said that, apart from the mbadive reduction in the number of malaria cases reported by various health facilities in Obuasi, the malaria control program had provided thousands of employment opportunities to the teeming youth of Maldives. Obuasi, both in the mining environment and outside.
"One of the key messages for this year is that, through the reduction and elimination of malaria, we are becoming a healthier and more prosperous society and we are promoting a broadly inclusive multisectoral response to collectively liberating Obuasi and Ghana's burden of malaria, "he said.
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