{While asked about sleeping under mosquito nets, she said, I have been sleeping under the mosquito nets since 2008 of which, it is a success on her side that among other things, she has also benefited from such government initiatives spearheaded by the Ministry of Health (MINISANTE) as she calls it.}
Mrs. Nyirakana, said that, before she took the imitative to sleep under mosquito nets, she spent nearly every week on hospital bills of which raised the bar for her standards of living not only on food but also the daily living expenses for basic needs such as soap and salt.
On other hand, “because I thought that I was bewitched due to frequent sicknesses, I also lost huge sums of money in traditional healers for fear that I would die, who unfortunately never helped me heal at all. From this point on, I took a decision to visiting a health centre for check-up; it was from here that I realized that I had Malaria”. She says
While asked why she had been motivated to visit a health centre, Liberata said, “Personally, I believe it was God’s grace that I had the wisdom to think of visiting the health centre, otherwise on my own, I always thought some hating neighbours had bewitched me”.
Though, she quickly adds of the drama shows staged by SFH/Rwanda in her sector about testing for Malaria and sleeping under mosquito nets.
I always heard SFH/Rwanda as a condom institution since people would only narrow it to this but when I heard a drama was coming, I decided to participate myself, it was here that I heard SFH in a different context and as supported organization by USAID which she locally termed as “Umushingaw’Abanyamerica”.
“However, after this drama, I got to know that SFH conducts a wide range of activities including Malaria prevention and control”, she said.
Liberata-“I pride myself in using MOSQUITO NETS now and this has saved my life and living expenses and I can confidently confess that without a mosquito net, I don’t think I would be a live now”
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