{Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and other partners such as World Health Organisation (WHO) is organising a one day malaria symposium, which will take place in Kigali, Serena Hotel on 22nd April 2016. }
During a Press Conference held at Rwanda Military Hospital on 19th April 2016, RMH Doctors, Country Representative and officials from World Health Organisation (WHO) explained to the Media the significance of the planned international conference.
They recalled that Rwanda and other countries in the region are experiencing an upsurge of malaria cases since last year. “The symposium represents a unique opportunity to discuss and define strategies and interventions that could be implemented at different levels of the health system and contribute to a significant reduction of malaria cases with a long term objective of eliminating malaria”, said Lt Col Dr Jules Kabahizi.
According to Celse Rugambura, World Health Organisation Country Representative and Dr Jules Mugabo in charge of Malaria Department in WHO, the upsurge of malaria is due to many causes including people’s reduced efforts in combating the disease, malaria virus that resists to medicine and multiplication of the disease due to climate change factors.
In the past 3 months in this year, Rwanda Military Hospital, a referral hospital in Rwanda, has registered 230 cases of Malaria, while in the whole year of 2014 it registered 158 cases only.
Lt Col Dr Kabahizi said also that the increase of Malaria impacts on the economy. “Imagine people who are spending time in hospitals looking for treatment instead of working for their families and the country, this simply means the country is economically losing” he convincingly explained.
The Symposium will bring together medical specialists and researchers, policy makers, economists from Africa, Europe, Asia and other parts of the World to discuss challenges, share experiences and dress a way forward to eradicate Malaria.
Malaria is among the ten diseases that kill many people in the world particularly in developing countries.
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