Kisumu voice spokesperson Audi Ogada has challenged Kisumu County residents to keep their surrounding neat and releasing stagnant water to curb mosquito breeding in such places.
Ogada noted that stagnant waters and bushes were breeding point for mosquitoes challenging residents to keep them neat by slashing them down.
Ogada called for KIWASCO team in collaboration with the Sewerage Department and the county government to come up with proper sewerage system but not local trenches that stagnated becoming mosquito breeding points.
He also observed that locals needed to embrace net usage and challenged the Ministry of Health to be providing the locals with mosquito nets to reduce malaria spread.
Plan International officer Florence Atera also noted that tropical diseases were so rampant educating the locals to embrace net usage, and to avoid staying in bushy environment and not allowing water to pool next to their residentials.
She challenged fellow NGO bodies to help see that the locals were fully sensitised and were provided with treated nets.
“Let us curb spread of malaria by not staying in bushy places, not having stagnant water around us as these are the mosquitoes breeding points,” advised Atera.
Ogada was speaking on Tuesday in Nyalenda Health Centre at malaria creation awareness event organised by Plan International to improve the local well-being on tropical diseases in the region.