Govt reintroduces DDT to eradicate Malaria

Principal health officer, Davis Ntebela said yesterday at the 19th International Environmental Health Conference in Gaborone that DDT has been reintroduced in the Chobe, the area hardest hit by the disease. It will be rolled out to other areas where there are reports of Malaria outbreak.

DDT is an indoor spray that was used during the early 1950s until 1997, when environmentalists and other lobby groups pressurised the government to discontinue its use.