[Effect of management on imported malaria in Yangzhou City, 2012-2013]

To evaluate the effectiveness of the management on imported malaria in Yangzhou City, so as to provide a reference for formulating the strategy for the prevention and control of imported malaria.

The data about the detection rate of Plasmodium of fever people in labor-exporting services and overseas returners, the proportion of laboratory confirmed cases in the whole malaria cases, the proportion of the cases with standardized treatment in the whole falciparum malaria cases within 24 hours, and the status of establishment of labor export platform were collected and analyzed in Yangzhou City from 2012 to 2013.

There were 82 imported malaria cases in Yangzhou City from 2012 to 2013. The monitoring of labor-exporting services and overseas returners was carried out in the seven counties and districts of Yangzhou City, and the coverage rate was 100%. There were 5 808 persons of export labor service, and among them, 5 575 persons got the medical alert service (95.99%), and 9 525 persons accepted the healthy behavior (95.13%). Totally 410 medical professional persons received the malaria microscopic examination training in 153 malaria microscopy stations or medical institutions, and the training coverage rate was 100%. The average time from attack to the first visit to a doctor of 82 falciparum malaria patients was 2.5 days; the average time from attack to diagnosis confirmation was 2.75 days. All the patients were cured. In the first visit to a doctor, 78 patients were diagnosed with blood tests, and the newly diagnosed blood test rate was 95.12%, and all of them were detected with Plasmodium. Totally 69 falciparum malaria cases were confirmed by the laboratory, and 58 patients were treated with the standard treatment within 24 hours after the first visit (84.16%).

The effect of the imported malaria control and management in Yangzhou City is obvious. However, it is still necessary to strengthen the health education and relevant medical personnel training to prevent and control imported falciparum malaria efficiently.