Health Ministry did not plan to face Malaria in Algeria

Head of the National Body for Health Promotion and Research Development “Foram”, Professor Mustapha Khayati, said that the Health Ministry did not plan to face malaria epidemic in Algeria, due to the extinction of this epidemic in Algeria during the seventies after the embodiment of a protective plan which lasts 14 years to face the fever of swamps that have caused hundreds of deaths after independence.

“Malaria infections during the past years took an ascending curve after the registration of two deaths last year in Ghardaia (southern Algeria), before recording many cases in Illizi and Adrar”.

Health Ministry’s slow move to prepare a precaution plan led to the growing number of patients abruptly, causing panic among the population in Ghardaia, which recorded 12 cases, and Batna, where two perished.

Khayati asserted that Algeria is currently experiencing two types of malaria, the first type is imported from some African fans, which is deadly and is equivalent to AIDS, as it kills the infected in less than 15 days.

As for the Malaria scourge that is registered in the state of Ghardaia is a third category which symptoms can appear three months after the infection and this type can be treated and stopped.

Professor Khayati called for the need to develop warning centers to meet the diseases that noticed a significant spread in Africa, such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS as they are the most dangerous killers, as they kill annually the lives of three million people.

“Algeria is one of the countries that are most vulnerable to the spread of malaria due to the growing migration of Africans from countries that are classified as places for the spread of this epidemic. Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted to the human body through the bites of mosquitoes, and is transmitted to the body through a parasitic substance that settle down and spread in the red blood cells that work to destroy it, so the patient will suffer a lack of red blood cells, and extreme lack in the blood, which causes death, and symptoms of malaria are fever, headache and vomiting. And those symptoms appear usually after 10 to 15 days of exposure to mosquito bites. Many of the swamps and water purification plants in the southern regions could be the cause for the spread of the epidemic, which requires an urgent plan to save Algerians    from the diseases which are the most dangerous killers in Africa.