The Ministry of Health is set to administer the second round of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to curb the accelerating rate of malaria cases during the May and September seasons in Turkana County.
SMC involves giving children monthly courses of antimalarial medicines, usually for four or five months per year, in locations where malaria is highly seasonal.
In a statement on Saturday, March 8, the Public Health Principal Secretary, Mary Muthoni, confirmed that the exercise would be conducted in June 2025.
Turkana is among the counties in the country where the burden of malaria still punches hard, with an estimated 474 cases per 1000 people.
