Mortein takes fight against Malaria to communities across Nigeria

In a important propulsion successful its Fight to End Malaria, Nigeria’s apical insecticide brand, Mortein, precocious carried retired an impactful assemblage acquisition run connected malaria prevention successful cities crossed Nigeria.

According to the 2023 World Malaria Report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), 22 persons dice each hr owed to malaria successful Nigeria, and 1 retired of 3 deaths from malaria globally hap successful Nigeria.

The Mortein marque stormed communities that were identified to beryllium susceptible to mosquito infestation, engaging radical successful Boundary astatine Ajegunle; Agbara, Makoko: Rumuigbo and Tudun Wada. The sensitization programme had renowned histrion and Mortein marque ambassador, Kate Henshaw, starring the team, and focused connected educating the section colonisation connected effectual ways to combat mosquitoes who are the carriers of the illness and guarantee malaria prevention.

As portion of the campaign, Mortein carried retired biology sanitation, gave retired acquisition flyers, and provided escaped aesculapian checks to amended connected prevention done due sanitation, the value of aboriginal detection of the disease, the usage of Insecticides sprays and sleeping nether Insecticide treated nets.

Reckitt employees besides actively volunteered connected the programme, and joined the residents successful the sanitation exercise, cleaning gutters, sweeping streets and educating with flyers to destruct imaginable mosquito breeding sites aimed astatine reducing malaria-related morbidity and mortality successful the area.

Head of External Communications & Partnership astatine Reckitt Sub-Saharan Africa, Cassandra Uzo-Ogbugh, praised the communities for their enthusiastic information successful the sanitation exercise. “Zero malaria starts with us.

It is large to spot that the communities are coming retired successful their numbers and supporting the sensitisation programme by Mortein” she stated.

“Malaria tin beryllium prevented by taking elemental actions that forestall the occurrence of mosquitoes, 1 of which is utilizing Insecticides similar Mortein which based connected probe kills 100per cent mosquitoes and ensuring that we bash not marque mosquitoes consciousness astatine location by letting them breed successful soiled environments oregon uncovered stagnant water”.
Collectively we request to accelerate the combat against malaria for a much equitable world.

During the campaign, Nollywood veteran, Kate Henshaw who besides took an progressive relation successful the cleanup and leveraged the accidental to amended residents connected the value of maintaining cleanable surroundings to forestall the breeding of mosquitoes.

“An untidy situation is simply a breeding crushed for mosquitoes, and by keeping our surroundings clean, and utilizing Mortein regularly, we tin forestall the dispersed of malaria,” Henshaw explained.

Mortein has been accordant successful starring the combat against malaria and continues to show its committedness to eradicating malaria done enhanced consciousness and preventive actions reflected successful its vigorous efforts successful communities successful assorted parts of the country.

Mortein has besides regularly collaborated with the Federal Government done the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) to beforehand malaria prevention acquisition utilizing societal media and integer platforms arsenic a instrumentality to thrust the acquisition and value of eradicating this illness from Nigeria.