When a Child Died from Malaria Before Me

In July 2024, I visited Tamale’s West Hospital to see a relative. While I waited, a 7-year-old boy was rushed in weak, burning with fever, and barely conscious. He had come too late from a remote village. Despite the doctors’ quick efforts, the boy died within minutes. I was frozen, watching helplessly as his mother wept.

That was the moment Spray Ghana Initiative was born. A moment that still breaks me, but also fuels this fight to protect every child we can reach. No one should die of malaria when we have the tools to stop it.