By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
KAKATA, Liberia- Margibi County Health Team (MCHT) has ended a one day media engagement forum with media practitioners in the County ahead of its County-wide mosquito nets distribution.
The one day forum which took place at C.H. Rennie Compound over the weekend brought together Journalists from across the County representing their respective media institutions including print, electronic and online.
The County malaria focal person of the Margibi County Health Team, Mr. D. Habakkuk Kollie during the occasion said the objective of the forum is for the media to assist and support the team as it goes through the process.
Mr. Kollie, who described the media as one of the key houses that disseminate information, further stated that the Health Team wants the media to continue to remind the population about the campaign and the action they need to take to benefit from the distribution.
“We want to make sure that every household in the County is registered ahead of the distribution” he indicated.
Mr. Kollie said another reason for the forum is for the media to encourage the public to use the net for the intended purpose when they
Mr. Kollie who described the media as one of the key houses that disseminate information, further stated that the Health Team wants the media to continue to remind the population about the campaign and the action they need to take to benefit from the distribution. “We want to make sure that every household in the County is registered ahead of the distribution” he indicated.
Mr. Kollie said another reason for the forum is for the media to encourage the public to use the net for the intended purpose.
“So like I said again, malaria is endemic, we know everybody here one way or the other had come down with malaria and then had received some level of treatment.
But this time around we are not looking at treatment, we are looking at how well we can prevent malaria in the population and one of the best ways to prevent malaria is through the usage of the mosquito net.” he narrated.
He said the team will do follow-up as to the rational usage of the nets that will be distributed.
He at the same time informed the media that the Health Team embarked on household registration and issuance of vuchors (tickets) in Margibi since May 15, 2021 and is expected to end on May 25, 2021.
Mr. Kollie said the vuchors issued to the head of every household will be taken to the distribution sites at which time nets will be issued to the bearers of those vuchors adding, ‘no vuchor, no net’.
According to him, the Health Team does not want any household to be left out of the process.
He then revealed that every vuchor has a stipulated distribution date on it noting that distribution starts from June 9th to June 19, 2021.
Habakkuk Kollie encouraged every citizen to take advantage of the process to prevent themselve from getting malaria.
Meanwhile, media practitioners who attended the forum thanked the County Health Team for the iniative and at the same time committed themselves to disseminating the needed information on their various radio programs.