Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Friday launched an awareness campaign for malaria, dengu and diarrhoea here on Friday.
Inaugurating the campaign, which would continue for August 17, the Minister said multifarious programmes have been undertaken on behalf of the State Government to eradicated these diseases fully. Number of deaths due to malaria, dengu and diarrhoea has been decreased remarkably in the State in the last four years, the Minister claimed.
During this 11-day campaign, awareness would be created among all health service provides at village level in all 314 blocks and cleanliness drives would be taken up at Gaon Kalyan Samiti level. Similarly, awareness messages would be written of all health centre walls.
National Health Mission Director Rupa Mishra said the campaign would also help in checking infant mortality rate (IMR) between the age group of 0-5 years.