Mr Anthony Ofori, Brong-Ahafo Regional Co-ordinator of Malaria Control Project has appealed to the media to focus on health related issues.

He noted that if the media give the same attention to political issues as health related issues, the rate at which some diseases were spreading could have been reduced.

Mr Ofori made the appeal in an interview with Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani on Thursday.

He said the media was an effective tool that could help in the control of diseases like malaria.

Mr Ofori pointed out that the development of every nation depended on the health of its people; therefore stakeholders should let the health status of Ghanaians be their major priority and advised the public to engage in basic good sanitation practices to avoid the spread of diseases.

He said under the project a programme to help reduce malaria cases by making the environment unsuitable for mosquito breeding could help minimize malaria cases by 75 per cent by 2015.

Source: GNA