JAIPUR: With the number of plasmodium falciparum (PF) malaria cases have increased in the state, the medical health and family welfare department has decided to give artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) to each and every case of malaria PF from this year.

As the risk of malaria spread has increased during monsoon, the department has made ACT available at every block level in the state. The department has directed all the government doctors to give ACT to each and every case of PF malaria.