He said he was of the belief that if at least two million people were trained to test and treat malaria, it would greatly enhance the country’s drive to eliminate malaria.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Prof. Binka suggested that retired teachers and civil servants staying in their villages could all be trained in malaria treatment.
“You are a retired teacher or civil servant staying at your village and they say there is no hospital; but you are the hospital. We can train you and the government can give you the drugs for the children and you can test and treat them. And when you do that, you would have given back to society,” he noted.
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For him, since many Ghanaians already had knowledge about malaria, training and certifying such people to test for and treat malaria would impact positively on Ghana’s malaria elimination process and also help prevent the abuse of malaria drugs or medication.
Prof. Binka was speaking on the sidelines of a workshop organised for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), with support from Speak Up Africa, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), in Accra last Thursday.
