Many don’t know the intensity

Intestinal worms should have similar attention like any other disease that poses serious health danger that the government takes care of.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Intestinal worms should have similar attention like any other disease that poses serious health danger that the government takes care of.

Worms have been proven to be a health hazard especially to the less advantaged making them more vulnerable to other ailments.

Among the highly susceptible group include school going age children who are fond of playing in dirt, eating unwashed foods, especially fruits, which increases the risks of getting infected with worms.

Let the government establish a project that supports patients who live with intestinal worms, since such patients have proved to be less productive.

Worm infections make their victims less effective in almost every thing they do thus crippling the economy.

Most people tend to regard worms as harmless and in so doing they enable the worms to cause more destruction to the people who suffer with the infection.

A talk about worms at any public gathering is vital, for example when people gather for the communal work (umuganda) where people meet in big numbers, even places of worship as the Clergy are among opinion leaders, and as a result, the Clergy can positively impact the community since members of public always take what the Clergy preach to be of a paramount importance.

Sensitization of primary school teachers about the menace that occur as a result of intestinal worms can also be helpful since they work among the people with accessibility to the masses up to grass root level.

These teachers can constantly teach the children under their guidance about the dangers, and how to take preventive measures against intestinal worms.

If not attended to, worms can bring about mental retardation and physiological under growth thus about the former, it cripples academic performance.

Kigali