ANNUAL HEALTH BULLETIN 2004 - Ministry of Health

The malaria trend has improved in the last few years compared to base year 1994.
Reviewing the last five years epidemiological data the reported number of confirmed
malaria cases were 5,935 in 2000,5982 in 2001,6511 in 2002 3806 in 2003 and 2670
in 2004. In 2004 the proportion of Plasmodium jalciparum malaria was 40% as
compared to P vivax malaria.
Malaria case load and Pf% trend from 1965
to 2004
YEAR
I·.. POSITIVE - Pf% i
The percentage of Pf cases has been constantly above 40% since 1994 reaching the
highest ever in 2002 with 54% and at 40% in 2004.
Malaria case load contributed by endemic dzongkhags (Fig 2 & 3)
95% of the country's malaria case load is contributed by the 5 endemic dzongkhags of
Sarpang, Samdrup Jongkhar, Samtse, Chukha and Zhemgang. For the first time Samtse
Dzongkhag has contributed maximum number of malaria cases of the country's
caseload in 2004. Malaria situation shows improvement in the last few years in all the
dzongkhags.