INESFLY anti-malarial paint comes to Ghana

Dr. Pilar Mateo, Inventor of INESFLY insecticide paint

A new insecticide wall paint that has properties to repel and kill mosquitoes and therefore prevent malaria, has been introduced in Ghana.

The product was invented by Spanish female scientist, Dr. Pilar Mateo, from 15 years of research, and it has been tested in several countries around the world and proven to be an effective destroyer of disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes, cockroaches and others.

In Ghana, the paint has also gone through several tests at the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and proven to most power and cost effective tool to control malaria.

The paint comes to through the signing of a formal agreement between the inventor, Dr. Mateo and INESFLY Africa, with partnership from Interplast Ghana and Walltech Ghana Limited, a real estate developer.

Mr. Philip Gamey is the Director of Corporate Affairs at INESFLY Africa, and he told Adom News even though there was no known vaccines for malaria in humans, INESFLY paint served as the first ever vaccine for buildings, such that any mosquito that entered or came close to a building painted with INESFLY would die.

“The INESFLY product is also the first ever vaccine that has a special ingredient named the IGR which has the ability to track the full life cycle of the insect from the egg, larvae, to the adult stage and completely deal with it,” he said.

He noted that there were separate INESFLY paints from indoors and outdoors, saying that the more concentrated ones are for outdoors and the less-concentrated ones for indoors, but it was completely harmless to and safe for humans, provided one stayed away from his or her room for 12 hours after painting.

“The paint is also an affordable way of preventing malaria because if you paint with INESFLY it takes a minimum of four years before you have to paint again, and when dirt gets on the walls you can use water in towel to clean off the dirt without wiping off the paint,” he said.

Mr. Gamey said the company had the approval of the Ministry of Health, EPA and GSA to establish a 10 million-euro manufacturing facility in Ghana by January next year.

“Ghana will then become the hub from where the company will distribute the product to the rest of Africa,” Philip Gamey said.

He said until the factory was established, INESFLY paint would be available on demand from Spain, which meant it would be a bit more expensive than other paints on the market.

Dr. Pilar Mateo said once the plant was established in Ghana, the cost of the paint would be about 50% cheaper than when it was imported from Spain, adding that there were also plans to collaborate with local and international development agencies to assist in getting the paint to the less privileged who needed it most.

“Two per cent of proceeds from sale would be put in a charity fund to support the less-privileged communities to have access to the paint and protect themselves from malaria and other disease-carrying insects,” she said.

Operations Manager of INESFLY Africa, Harold Carboo, said the company had agreed to paint the children’s ward of the 37 Military Hospital with INESFLY paint to protect children on admission in that hospital from contracting malaria.

Mr. Carboo, who is also the Business Development/Procurement Manager at Walltech Ghana Limited, said Walltech had also agreed to paint all its estate buildings with INESFLY to protect clients from contracting malaria.

Mr. Austin Gamey of Gamey and Gamey Associates, who chaired the signing, said the establishment of the manufacturing plant in Ghana would not only make the product more affordable, but also create thousands of jobs for Ghanaians.