Malaria has killed more than 200 people since January in Zambezia province

Malaria remains the main cause of hospitalization in health units in Zambezia province. In the first nine months of this year, the disease killed 225 people, 24 cases less the number of deaths recorded during all of last year.

In 2014, more than 800,000 people were admitted to hospitals in Zambezia as a result of malaria.Of these, 249 died. From January to September of last year, more than 650 000 cases were recorded. While the numbers remain high, the data represents a decrease of deaths in about 17%. The health sector points out the difficulties of transitability to major health facilities in the province due to damage caused by heavy rains last season.

"We are saying that there are more people who contracted malaria in the first nine months of 2015. One of the contributions were to bad weather that damaged completely the access to roads, leaving a total of 70% of the province impassable. The situation prevented the use of circulating medium to transport medicines, mosquito nets to the health centers, and many hospitals closed because of rains "explained Filipe Vicente, head of public health department in the Provincial Health Directorate.