The Ministry of Health (MINISANTE) has unveiled a plan to offer certification to materials used in preventing and combating malaria in Rwanda as an effort to ensure proper application to eliminate the disease which, of late, has become more rampant.
In a discussion the minister held yesterday with private medical practitioners, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho said that Mosquito repellents will be verified and certified before getting sold in Rwanda.
She said that the efforts are meant to help Rwandans access facilities for malaria control and requested entrepreneurs to invest in malaria fighting facilities and drugs. She also said there is a plan of applying insecticides in all households across the country where all Rwandans and private investors will take part.
Danny Mutembe, the chairperson of private pharmacies in Rwanda, commended the act of regulating some health materials.
“We are delighted with the initiative. We have always wondered why some imported pharmaceutical equipment are verified by the ministry of health,”he said.
Mutembe said that private pharmacies had ignored malaria control intervention thinking that public health facilities had enough materials which thinking they are going to change forthwith.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health indicate that from 2013 until 2015 malaria patients have multiplied three fold, 900,000 to 2.7 million.
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