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Malaria is a bane on the national economy

KESSBENFM 93.3 : "Major Courage Quashigah (rtd), Health Minister on Monday considered malaria as a serious threat to the peoples' health and the economy, stressing the need for urgent actions to prevent the disease from eroding the National Health Insurance Fund. He told Parliament in Accra that, the estimated annual total economic cost of malaria was US$772.4 million, an equivalent to the total annual budget of the Ministry of Health for the year 2008. In a presentation to seek approval of the House for GHC 752.23 million for the Ministry of Health for the fiscal year 2008, Major Quashigah said the total economic cost of malaria to Ghana's economy was as colossal as acquiring 30,000 four-by-four wheel drive pick-ups within a year."

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