We are lucky at Nata clinic to have the 15 minute rapid test for Malaria. We are just at the close of our Malaria season and we've been quite lucky this year as we did not have a full outbreak like 2 years back. The Environmental Health office does a great job of spraying for mosquito larvae before the season begins and this helps cut down on the spread of this awful disease. Sr. Nurse Ramakhama simply pricks the finger of the patient and puts the blood on a treated slide. She then adds the clearing buffer liquid and waits for the result. We often get a false negative so if patients have obvious symptoms of malaria they are started on the treatment regardless of the test result.
We are lucky at Nata clinic to have the 15 minute rapid test for Malaria. We are just at the close of our Malaria season and we've been quite lucky this year as we did not have a full outbreak like 2 years back. The Environmental Health office does a great job of spraying for mosquito larvae before the season begins and this helps cut down on the spread of this awful disease. Sr. Nurse Ramakhama simply pricks the finger of the patient and puts the blood on a treated slide. She then adds the clearing buffer liquid and waits for the result. We often get a false negative so if patients have obvious symptoms of malaria they are started on the treatment regardless of the test result.