The Nepali government has aimed to control malaria completely from the disease affected areas by 2016

The Nepali government has aimed to control malaria completely from the disease affected areas by 2016, the National News Agency RSS reported on Thursday.

The Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control under Ministry of Health and Population has prepared the strategy and which aims to wipe out malaria from the country.

According to Chief of the department Dr. Saroj Prasad Rajendra, the government has decided to provide a medicated net to every two persons or insecticide to kill the mosquitoes in the malaria infected areas.

When the cases of certified malaria patients were seen in any villages, the government will search the disease infected people going to the community and suggests them early treatment, he said.

Senior administrator of the department Bishwo Raj Khanal said the sudden rise on the suspected malaria patients was the challenge that the National Malaria Program has been facing. Around 3,500 cases of malaria have been justified from the lab where around 100,000 suspected cases were seen across the country every year, he said.

They were facing the challenges as the medicine to control malaria was not distributed nationwide from the respective health worker and lack of supervision, said administrator Khanal.

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