Tamale,(Northern Region) 1, Oct. The Tamale Municipal Health Management team has embarked on a series of workshops to educate the public on the treatment of fever and malaria. The programme seeks to conscientise chemical sellers, drug prescribers, day care attendants, traditional birth attendants and village health workers on the proper handling and dispensing of drugs for malaria cases. Dr Agana Nsiire, leader of the team who addressed one of the workshops being attended by over 20 day-care attendants at Tamale yesterday stressed the need for first aid in cases of ill health especially fever. He said it is necessary that children are sponged to maintain their body temperature before drugs are administered. Dr Nsiire said the workshop is also to enable the participants to discuss how to handle convulsion, discuss symptons of malaria, the life cycle of malaria parasite and dispensing of drugs. He said that it is necessary for every school to have a first aid kit to treat early signs of malaria while people who react to choloroquine tablets should be given drugs to stop body itching. The participants appealed to the ministry of health and the Ghana Education service to supply government nursery schools with first aid kits.
