On Thursday last, the Mother Teresa Charitable Society kicked off an awareness campaign against dengue and malaria here.
It 13 members led by president Satyapira Panda and secretary Jyotiranjan Rajaram Panda moved door-to-door in the Kuhunda Panchayat and Mulabasanta Panchayats and advised the people to keep their house, pond, drain and surroundings clean so that mosquitoes do not find any favourable place to grow.
Santilata Panigrahi, Subhashree Panda, Bharati Mishra, Uma Behera, Samikhya Mohanty, Sabita Raychodhury Daitari Behera, Janmejay Khilar, Ranjan Kumar Sahoo, Subas Nayak, Kandhei Nayak, Nishant Das and Priya Ranjan Satapathy of the society took part in the campaign. Notably in Mahanga 32 people have been detected as dengue-hit whereas a 12-year-old died of the disease.