{"id":26191,"date":"2025-02-08T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26191"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:23:22","slug":"ministry-of-health-reports-over-24000-malaria-cases-diagnosed-and-treated-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ministry-of-health-reports-over-24000-malaria-cases-diagnosed-and-treated-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health Reports Over 24,000 Malaria Cases Diagnosed and Treated in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon | January 7, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health has diagnosed and treated more than 24,000 cases of malaria in 2024, as reported by Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This significant number highlights the continued efforts to combat the disease and prevent its spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony shared these statistics during the Ministry&#8217;s year-end press conference, revealing that 24,169 cases of malaria were identified throughout the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the Ministry distributed 109,523 insecticide-treated bed nets as part of its preventive measures, and conducted rapid testing to identify and treat cases more efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry\u2019s initiatives also include training miners across the country to use rapid diagnostic tests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These trained miners can now diagnose, treat, and report malaria cases directly from their camps, helping to reduce transmission in remote areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana has also been actively involved in the Disease Elimination Initiative (DEI) launched by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, with a focus on eliminating malaria as part of the country\u2019s broader health system transformation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine Chacon | January 7, 2025 The Ministry of Health has diagnosed and treated more than 24,000 cases of malaria in 2024, as reported by Minister of Health, Dr.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26192,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions\/26192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}