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Mozambique’s Ministry of Health is to install a laboratory in the north of the country to study the mosquito that spreads malaria, a government official announced on Thursday.
“On average, six out of ten people in Nampula have the malaria parasite,” said the director of the National Malaria Control Programme, Baltazar Candrinho, quoted on Thursday by national news agency, AIM.
According to the figures, the province of Nampula is the one most affected by the disease in Mozambique, justifying the installation of the laboratory, he said, adding that it should be ready to operate within one month and help understand the behaviour of the mosquito to back the ministry in decision-making to prevent the disease.
The government has already invested about €870,000 in spraying programmes to eliminate the mosquito in eight districts of Nampula, where the number of cases has reached critical levels.
At a national level, the most recent immunisation indicator survey points to a malaria prevalence of around 40.2% in a population of 28.8 million people.
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