Insecticide campaign to combat malaria in Mahweet

Medical teams in the Mahweet governorate started on Saturday the campaign which stresses the importance of spreading insecticide to combat malaria.

The campaign targets 9,000 houses in the governorate. Mahweet Governor, Ahmed Muhasin inspected activities of the teams in Bani Sad district, pointing out the active role of the local council and the Ministry of the Public Health and Population to carry out this campaign. Some 150 persons are working in the campaign that will last until the end of this week.

Police and customs seize ten million drugs capsules in 8 months  Security sources said on Sunday that Interior Ministry seized about 1,400,000 capsules of drugs since the beginning of 2008. 

The sources added that the latest operation of drug seizures was done in the Aden harbor, where about 3,500,000 capsules of drugs were found inside water heaters imported from a neighbor country.  The security sources pointed out those investigations are underway with the smugglers. 

Last week, the security forces in Hodeidah province held a Syrian citizen charged with smuggling 1.212 million kaptagon pills into the country. 

The seizure comes after the security forces detained a large amount of kaptagon pills concealed in water heaters shipped in a container and after they found large quantities of hashish in two cars.

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