About a century ago,Ghana was ambushed by a deadly disease called Malaria,a disease caused by plasmodium species and transmitted by the female anopheles mosquito. Malaria’s mortality rate was between 1-2 million deaths annually and had an infection rate of 300-500million people worldwide.90% of these infections and deaths was in Africa(Ghana inclusive),with approximately 25 thousand Ghanaians losing their lives yearly to a disease that is very ubiquitous,preventable, and treatable.Such was the enormity of the carnage visited on this otherwise peaceful medically serene country that the medical fraternity was prompted to develop chloroquine in 1943.Chloroquine was an ideal anti-malaria drug but its efficacy has decreased dramatically in the last few decades.
Source: GhanaWeb
