{"id":11256,"date":"2026-06-12T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:45:24","slug":"buliisa-registers-decline-in-malaria-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2026\/06\/12\/buliisa-registers-decline-in-malaria-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Buliisa Registers Decline in Malaria Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok<\/p>\n<p>The number of malaria cases reported at health facilities in Buliisa District is steadily declining following the government&#8217;s recent distribution of mosquito nets to communities.<\/p>\n<p>This has been revealed by the In-charge of Buliisa Health Centre IV, Dr. Peter Otim, during an exclusive interview with Spice FM.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Otim said that before the mosquito nets were distributed, malaria cases accounted for about 70 percent out of 100% of all patients treated at the facility on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that the number of malaria-positive cases has significantly reduced since households received the nets.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Otim expressed optimism that malaria cases will continue to decline if communities make proper use of the mosquito nets.<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents, especially parents, to ensure that all family members sleep under treated mosquito nets every night to protect themselves from mosquito bites and prevent malaria infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok The number of malaria cases reported at health facilities in Buliisa District is steadily declining following the government&#8217;s recent distribution of mosquito nets to communities. This has been revealed by the In-charge of Buliisa Health Centre IV, Dr. Peter Otim, during an exclusive interview with Spice FM. Dr. Otim said that before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bunyoro","7":"category-health","8":"category-national","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11260,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}