According to Kabale district Health Educator Alfred Besigensi, the district noted a 10% rise in malaria cases with most central division, southern division and Butanda Sub-counties recording high numbers of malaria cases in the last six weeks.
Besigensi attributes high prevalence rate in those sub-counties to receive many people from different regions like the municipality and Butanda being a border subcounty also receives many people from the neighbouring country.
Besigensi has called upon people to embark on preventive strategies like sleeping under treated mosquito nets, seeking early treatment from health facilities among others.
Speaking in the same meeting, the Kabale district Deputy Resident Commissioner Ronald Bakaki, asked the district health authority to make awareness for people to utilize malaria drugs.
Malaria remains the second killer disease among children under 5years, claiming 42 children daily and 1,095 annually according to the Uganda Demographic Health Survey 2011.
