By Andrew Salima
Malawi Liverpool Welcome Trust has on Saturday mapped remote access roads in Blantyre city aiming at identifying time which people take access to medical services found within the city.
The exercise involved 20 participants including some students from Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS).
Speaking after the exercise,Patrick Kalonde who led the activity said: “We want to know the time which different people within Blantyre can take to access medical services.”
” And again,we also want to identify people who are far away from health facilities because those people can be targeted for interventions.”
”Now as a country, we are rolling out cholera vaccine so if we are to identify some places far from health facilities within the city, will then be able to target interventions for such communities,” he added.
On his part, a MUBAS student Andrew Chilembwe said the exercise has come at a right time since other areas in the city were hit with cyclone Freddy.
“The exercise also helped me to get knowledge about mapping and other features which are also related to the program am doing at school,” he said.
The mapping information is expected to be published soon in a manuscript so that the public can easily access the data at any time they want.
