The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate, in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), on Wednesday April 9, 2025, commenced registration for the distribution of free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets.
The exercise is expected to end on April 13, 2025, while the free distribution date will be announced later.
Dr Sally D. Quartey, Tema Metro Director of Health Service, speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the exercise was free of charge, noting that the public must take advantage of it to avoid going to purchase some after the end of the programme.
Dr Quartey indicated that the exercise was also one of the strategies being employed by the National Malaria Elimination Programme in the fight against malaria.
She said the distribution of the nets would be done after the registration exercise was over, adding that the public does not have to go out of their homes to any specific place to register.
“The registration assistants will come to their homes. Heads of households should have their identification cards available – Ghana Card, driver’s license, passport, etc. Registration is within five days, so anyone who refuses the registration will not receive a net,” she added.
She noted that “the nets distribution will be one net per two people in a household.”
She reminded the public that malaria was contracted through parasites that are transmitted to people when a mosquito carrying the parasite bites them, adding that the good-quality insecticide nets to be distributed would prevent mosquitoes from getting into contact with them to bite them while we are sleeping.
She stressed that sleeping under the insecticide nets would help prevent the transmission of malaria and reduce the disease in Ghana.
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