Hunan announces the formal elimination of malaria through the National Final Review of Malaria Elimination

On June 12, the Hunan Final Assessment for the Elimination of Malaria Was presented in ChangshaThe experts of the National Final Review Team for the Elimination of Malaria after a rigorous evaluation solemnly announced - Hunan through the National Final Review of Malaria Elimination Assessment! This marks Hunan's goal of eliminating malaria since thenthe elimination of malaria, is the history of disease prevention and control in our province is a landmark event, is our province after the eradication of smallpox, filariasis and other diseases after another major health cause resultsHistorically, malaria has a long history of epidemic in Hunan, all counties and urban areas have epidemic history, to Xiangnan as the most, folk since ancient times spread "boat to Luzhou stop, horse to Luzhou dead, people to Zhangzhou to play the son" balladIn 1945, malaria spread to urban and rural areas, with more than 220,000 patients, accounting for almost half of the county's population, and some villagers even died more than halfOver the past decades, Party committees and governments at all levels in Hunan have attached great importance to malaria prevention and control, and various functional departments have carried out their duties and responsibilities, and malaria prevention and control efforts have achieved remarkable resultsIn 2011, our province officially launched the malaria elimination action plan, in accordance with the requirements of the national elimination of malaria work, and constantly establish and improve the elimination of malariamanagementmechanism, through the broad mobilization of the masses, large-scale antimalarial campaign, the adoption of "
prevention, according to local conditions" comprehensive control measures, malaria incidence and mortality rate has been declining, from 1954 to April 2010 about 550,000 people have become ill, to April 2010 no local casesprovincial health and health committee head said that with the increasing international contacts, imported malaria transmission risk will remain long-termIn order to consolidate the results of malaria eradication in Hunan and comprehensively promote the "Healthy Hunan" action, the provincial health departments at all levels, under the leadership of the Party committees and governments at all levels, will continue to maintain and stabilize the malaria control team with relevant departments such as customs, adhere to the prevention-oriented, prevention and control combination, high-quality imported malaria control, and comprehensively prevent the re-transmission of malaria importsSource: "Hunan DISEASE Control" WeChat Public