5000 sellers designated as Health Ministry begins mosquito net circulation to city markets

The Ministry of Health has started off the appropriation of mosquito nets to merchants dozing in different business sectors around the city as coordinated by President Museveni to stay away from the spread of Coronavirus.

On Wednesday, the activity was hailed off by the Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary, Dr. Diana Atwine at Nakasero Market in the wake of getting a gift of 2000 mosquito nets from Quality Chemicals Limited.

“As the nation fights the Covid pandemic, jungle fever is another danger particularly to the brokers who stay in bed markets. The mosquito nets will prove to be useful to them,” Atwine said.

“We have 2000 mosquito nets from Quality Chemicals Limited and the Ministry of Health will add 3000 nets to make it 5000. We need to guarantee each and every individual who rests in the market gets a net.”

The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary asked the merchants to guarantee they practice social removing while in the business sectors to keep away from the spread and contracting of the destructive infection.

“You may see your partner looking fine yet numerous individuals move with the infection in their bodies since they are asymptomatic. Allow us to follow the SOPs and the diseases will go down.”

Dr.Atwine praised the market sellers for noticing President Museveni’s recommendation of resting in the business sectors to try not to spread the infection to their relatives and yet keep giving food to the general population.

“We need to thank you for keeping markets proceeding since we need to get by in the lockdown. We thank you for the penance.”

Following the declaration of a 42 lockdown after the increment in new Covid contaminations, President Museveni coordinated that market food sellers ought to return to snoozing markets to try not to spread the infection to relatives.

“Food market merchants ought to return to the situation of March 2020 and stay at their work environments. The service of wellbeing should give them free bed nets so they are not nibbled by mosquitoes yet when you rest don’t be together on the grounds that we have found in the military that that causes diseases,” Museveni said.

Thusly, he coordinated the Ministry of Health along with Kampala Capital City Authority to give nets to the merchants.