Medicines Sans Frontiers or MSF is setting up community advanced malaria posts during the rainy season in Agok of Abyei Administrative Area.
MSF in a statement says the posts in remote areas will facilitate patients to get test and treatment for malaria in their communities than walking for hours to reach the hospital.
The strategy aims at reducing the number of patients with severe malaria that come to the hospital, the statement adds.
It will also decrease the mortality associated with malaria and also to quickly detect the disease in remote communities and treat it as soon as possible.
The ‘CMAP project’ or in 2015 as a response to the severe malaria outbreak that hit the area.
This year, 22 villages will be part of community malaria project started to minimize the morbidity of severe malaria around Agok town.
MSF trained two volunteers in each village and also provides the rapid test to malaria.