In their sustained efforts to reduce the mosquito population in Banjul and the periphery, the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) has recently waged a five-day biological warfare on mosquitoes in and around Banjul.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Mr. Balla Kandeh, Senior Programme Officer at NMCP, said the exercise was an annual event that NMCP conducts through the Department of State for Health. The exercise, he went on, involves the countrywide application of bio-larvicide to combat mosquitoes.

According to Mr. Kandeh, NMCP has three main preventative constituents of intermitted preventative treatment, insecticides treatment nets and vector control, adding that bio-larvicide, which falls under vector control approach, is more effective in that it entails the attacking and killing of mosquitoes at the larval stage in order to prevent them from multiplying.

“This exercise will make an impact because you stop mosquitoes from multiplying. This operation is not only confined to the city of Banjul but we’ll be reaching out to other communities in the countryside because 60% of our population live in the provinces,” he concluded.