The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar through the Ministry of Health will continue to cooperate with the Government of Switzerland

The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar through the Ministry of Health will continue to cooperate with the Government of Switzerland in increasing efforts to end malaria in the country.

The Minister of Health Zanzibar Nassor Ahmed Mazrui said this when he met and held talks with a delegation from the Swiss Embassy in Tanzania at his office at Vuga.

He said that the Swiss government is cooperating with Tanzania in ending malaria by helping in providing training, equipment and providing training to the staff of the malaria unit.

Also has informed that Switzerland has helped to establish a health insurance fund in Zanzibar by providing materials and training until its launch, so its presence continues to help greatly in ending malaria in the country along with maternal and child health services.

He added that Switzerland in collaboration with UNFPA have continued to contribute to the issues of family planning, maternal, child health and malaria with the aim of making Tanzania continue to improve and provide better services in those areas.

“We have praised them a lot for their cooperation and the help they give us and we ask them to continue to help us and continue to provide training to our executives” added Minister Mazrui.

For his part, the Head of International Relations at the Swiss Embassy in Tanzania, Holger Tausch, assured Minister Mazrui that they will continue their existing cooperation which has reached 60 years now in the Health sector and continues to strengthen, especially by helping on the training side as well as some important terms that they will agree on.

At the same time, he emphasized that they will continue to prepare a plan to end malaria that reaches all the areas that are still difficult to reach due to the lack of materials and various other problems.

On the part of the Director of Prevention and Health Education in Zanzibar, Dr. Salim Slim, he said that the Ministry of Health continues to take various measures to combat Malaria so that it cannot affect the people of Zanzibar and he has praised Switzerland’s efforts to help support the Government’s efforts.

Cooperation between Switzerland and Tanzania has reached sixty (60) years now.

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