Although the Ministry of Health through its Vector Control Services has been vibrantly tackling malaria, these efforts are often undermined.Dr Reyaud Rahman, Director of Vector Control ServicesThis has been the observation of Director of Vector Control Services, Dr Reyaud Rahman, who during an interview with this publication disclosed that this state of affairs is mainly caused by those within the mining sector.In fact the Health Ministry had linked an increase in malaria to the growing gold mining activities in sections of Guyana?s hinterland. Moreover,[url=http://www.cheapjerseysnear.us@#$%&/]wholesale jerseys china[/url], intensified measures were engaged to address the threatening health situation.Relating the tedious process of taking malaria prevention and treatment measures to the hinterland, particularly mining areas, Dr Rahman explained the work of vector control workers even as he emphatically outlined that ?the malaria workers work very,[url=http://www.nhl2017.us@#$%&/Detroit-Red-Wings-Danny-Dekeyser-Jersey/]Danny DeKeyser Red Wings Jersey[/url], very hard to take treated bed nets and treatment to the (mining) camps.?However, challenges often surface when the workers arrive in the mining areas. He explained that getting to these camps entails malaria workers trekking for miles through some inaccessible areas such as sections of Mowasi, Region Eight. Though these workers usually start such a mission in a 4×4 vehicle armed with microscopes to facilitate the examination of smears, and nets to help prevent the spread of malaria, that journey often lasts longer than anticipated.?One of the challenges is that a malaria worker might drive for about 10-15 miles and when he gets there he still has to go five or even 10 miles more…Then he gets on to his ATV and he is going to go as far as he can until he reaches to an area where he can?t go further. He leaves that there puts his backpack on and then he treks through mud,[url=http://www.cheapjerseysnear.us@#$%&/]jerseys nfl wholesale[/url], probably waist high, and there is no other way.?By this time, Dr Rahman disclosed, that malaria worker is quite muddy,[url=http://www.cheapjerseysnear.us@#$%&/]wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china[/url], and when he gets to the camp miners are busy on their gold-finding missions and some would immediately react in a negative manner. ??No,[url=http://www.footlockershop.us@#$%&/Nike-roshe-one-br/]http://www.footlockershop.us@#$%&/Nike-roshe-one-br/[/url], no we are alright… we are good, we don?t want to take smears.??Dr Rahman informed that it is required that the malaria workers take smears from the miners or others within areas under malaria threat, but according to him ?the miners are sometimes very difficult. Once they are finding gold that is the priority for them, they continue doing what they are doing and they disregard the malaria worker…He (malaria worker) treks for miles and sometimes he may have to turn back because there is nothing else he can do. If they don?t want to take it that?s it, and his work and his fuel and his time and everything just goes down the drain. So that is some ofA malaria team ready for a missionthe challenges we have.?Another challenge is that of tracking miners who would have been attended to. Malaria workers,[url=http://www.cheapnfljerseysmr.us@#$%&/]NFL Jerseys Outlet[/url], Dr Rahman disclosed, would usually treat miners on site. This process can however be compromised as the malaria worker at times is unable to locate the miner he would have attended to earlier.?The malaria workers treat them and give them their nets and two weeks after he goes back to the site and the person is nowhere to be found…and then they have gone with the net too.?According to Dr Rahman, there are times that the malaria worker is able to locate that individual at another mining camp and when questioned about the net, for instance, the response is sometimes ??oh I sent it to Georgetown? that is what happens… those are someof the challenges that we have.?Moreover, the Ministry of Health has been seeking to work in collaboration with a number of agencies in order to address these challenges.Dr Rahman disclosed that a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with various entities including the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association, the Geology and Mines Commission, the Forestry Commission and efforts are being made to bring on board the Forest Products Association and the Women Miners Organisation.This move, according to Dr Rahman, is expected to ?strengthen our activities. We recognise that we need partners, because if the miners are not going to listen to us then we believe that other persons must come on board, as at the end of the day when they are not producing when they are not healthy,[url=http://www.cheapnfljerseysmr.us@#$%&/]Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply[/url], it impacts these organisations and the whole country, and we look as if we are not doing our job.?