Engie, PreMal unveil baited trap for pests
By Jacktone Lawi, July 25, 2022
Hotels and businesses got a boost to enhance their outdoor settings from mosquitoes after the launch of a new technology that leverages solar energy to trap insects.
This is after global energy firm Engie Energy Access tapped Dutch-based social enterprise PreMal meant to make the outdoors safer.
Through the innovative solar-powered insecticide-free system dubbed MTego, firms can contain the malaria vector outside, taking the war against malaria to the next level.
Malaria control system
Engie Energy Access Kenya Country Director Fredrick Noballa said this new vector control technology is affordable, leverages clean energy and a game-changer for livelihoods in rural areas.
“Malaria causes an enormous drain on African economies, with countries spending huge sums of resources for the control of malaria-resources that could have been devoted to other productive sectors,” said Noballa.
The utility uses odour baits that replicate human scents to attract mosquitoes and employs a counter-airflow principle which uses an electric fan to create suction.
World Health Organisation estimates that 241 million cases of malaria are reported worldwide annually as Africa accounts for 95 per cent of malaria cases.