A medical director at Torit hospital Dr John Isaac reveals cases of malaria are on increase among children below five years.
Dr Isaac says 65% of patients admitted in the hospital on daily basis are due to malaria as compared to other diseases.
He also mentions pneumonia and diarrhoea as other related diseases the hospital records on daily basis among children.
‘The most common diseases we have at the hospital include malaria in children age five and below and also pneumonia and diarrhoea these are the three main common diseases. It constitute around sixty-five percent of all the cases that we receive in the hospital’
The doctor urges the public to clear bushes and stagnant water from their surrounding.
‘People always say that prevention is better than cured and for you to be at safe side you need to have preventive measure like for malaria we advice people to sleep under treated mosquitoes net, and then also you make sure you drain your stagnant water from your compound that will stop mosquitoes from breeding in those places.’
The medical director was speaking in an interview to Radio Emmanuel in Torit.