The National Malaria Control Programme of the Ghana Health Service has donated 100 Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets (ITNs) to Joy In Giving Foundation in Accra as part of a partnership to spread the distribution of the nets to prevent the endemic malaria disease.

The gesture was in support of the Foundation’s  project, which will ensure orphans at the Volta Home Orphanage at Ve-Deme in the Volta Region have a good night’s sleep in a conducive environment.

A good night’s sleep means no chance for mosquitoes to bite, hence the need to prevent malaria at the orphanage.
Controlling and preventing malaria is in line with the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. This is why the National Malaria Control Programme is aiming to reach about 80% of the Ghanaian population to sleep under treated bed nets.

A Charity Ambassador for Joy In Giving Foundation, Miss Ernestina Muulikaa, received the bed nets.

The treated bed nets will help in achieving the overall objective of the Foundation’s project, which includes renovating the dormitories of the Volta Home Orphanage – which are currently in very poor states – and also providing bunk beds with accompanying bedclothes.

Mad. Joyce Midley donating items to an orphanage

In an interview with Cedidollar.com, the Executive Director of the Foundation, Madam Joyce Midley stated that: “The entire population of Ghana is at risk of malaria infection, especially children. However, data from the Ghana Health Service indicates that transmission is less intense in large urban centres compared to rural areas. It is for this reason that we must continue to reach all corners of this nation to support the have-not and under-privileged with such services.”

“It also our responsibility as a people to put systems in place to reduce the mortality associated with malaria at all levels and clearly we have seen some progress in that regard,” she added.

She stated that a report by the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in 2018 showed that the institutional case fatality rate among children under five years of age declined from 14.1 percent in 2000 to just 0.32 percent in 2016.

“This is a substantial improvement, which supports the initiatives put in place over the years to improve malaria prevention systems and reduce mortality cases to the barest minimum,” she averred.