One hundred and ninety people have been diagnosed with malaria in Kailali in the running fiscal year.

Hari Prasad Bhatta, the vector control officer at the District Public Health Office said Godavari, Chaumala, Urma, Masuriya, Udasipur, Hasuliya, Pahalmanpur, Ramsikharjhala, Khailad, Chuha, Baliya and Sugarkhal villages are at high risk of malaria.

The DPHO is preparing to distribute mosquito nets and spray insecticides in these villages, he added.

The incidence of malaria is also high in the neighbouring district of Kanchanpur. Sixty-five people have diagnosed with the disease in the past nine months.

Forty-eight of them were India-based migrant workers who were diagnosed after they had just returned home for the Dashain and the Tihar festivals, said Tanka Prasad Chapagain, the senior public health officer at the DPHO.