Three (3) tips on malaria prevention

Malaria is a fatal disease, at the same time preventable. The doctors or health professionals only attend to you when you're sick. The first thing to do is you're helping yourself before you're helped.

So, where there is no doctor, the first thing that comes to our mind is: How can we prevent getting infected with malaria parasites. Many times, we forget the basics or primary health concepts because we want to and enjoy the joy of modern technology. However, the primary health concepts remain the world's perfect health practices.

So, it's best described as preventive medicine they call it prevention is better than curing or proactive primary healthcare remains the world's best while reactive costs lots of money and life.

Following are primary healthcare preventive approaches on how to prevent malaria.

Three (3) tips on how to prevent malaria.

1. Clean up the surrounding bush areas. Ensuring the surroundings of your home should be completely cleared so that mosquitoes do not build their homes. The mosquitoes like to stay in dark places. Once the area is cleared up, and sufficient light is directed in the areas, it's not safe for mosquitoes to live in such areas.

2. Throw away empty tins, pots or any that containers that can store water. The mosquitoes like to still waters and most running water. The still waters is a potential breeding ground for mosquitoes.

So, the best thing to do is open both sides of the tins, and throw them into the rubbish bins, and drain out the still waters. 

The mosquitoes lay eggs and multiple in a still sitting water and once preventive healthcare practices are applied, mosquitoes feel insecure so they either leave or die out.

3. Sleep in properly treated mosquito nuts.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and medical experts on malaria highly recommend sleeping under treated mosquito nets.