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The mass distribution and hang-up campaign of the Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) in the Kumasi metropolis has been extended to Thursday, April 5, 2012.The expansion is to afford a lot more households to access and benefit from the free net distribution by volunteers in local communities.The national exercise is part of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) strategy to control malaria by preventing mosquito bites through sleeping under the net.Data on the current distribution in the five sub-metros of Kumasi are not readily available, but some supervisors are reporting 60-70 percent coverage of households.Regional Health Promotion Officer, Mabel Asafo told Luv News about 85-90 percent has been targeted in the net hang-up in households at the end of the exercise.“The universal coverage is two people to a net and so we’re hoping that everybody should own one”, she said.She is however unhappy with some households who are not allowing the volunteers to hang the nets.“This campaign is actually to hang the nets for households but the reports that are coming in are that households are not allowing volunteers to hang and in other aspects the volunteers are not willing or enquiring to hang because they believe that households will not allow them, so they just go about distributing the net and that is our worry”, observed Madam Mabel.She entreated households to open up for the nets to be hung or make efforts to hang themselves in order to achieve the purpose of getting families to sleep in the insecticide nets.
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