MALARIA: PREVENTION OUTWEIGHS TREATMENT
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Abstract
With the recent climate changes, hospitals
are facing high admission rates due to malaria.
Patients are presenting with varying severities and
complications of Vivax and Falciparum malaria in the
form of thrombocytopenia, renal failure, disseminated
intravascular coagulation, cerebral malaria and
multi-organ failure. Most of the patients are cured
if presented to hospital well in time, but some
unfortunate ones may not make it through the disease
and fall prey to either the complexities of the disease
itself or the adverse effects of anti-malarials; cardiac
toxicity being the gravest of all.
Malaria is a major health problem in Pakistan, with
an annual incidence of 1.6 million cases.1 Hospitals are
focusing on providing free anti-malarial medications to
patients suffering from malaria; doctors are focusing
on treating malaria and its associated complications,
but the question is whether treatment of malaria should
be the priority or is it the prevention which demands
attention?
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