North Delhi Mayor PreetyAgarwal on Thursday visited Hindu Rao and Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis (RBIPMT) hospital to check the preparations to deal with the vector-borne diseases.
Agarwal said that to contain the number of dengue cases, North Corporation is taking all possible preventive measures such as checking door-to-door mosquito breeding, anti-larva programme and spray of anti-mosquito.
After inspecting services being offered by the hospitals, Mayor said that the Hindu Rao hospital is ready to deal with cases of dengue, malaria and chikungunya. She further informed that adequate stock of medicines and equipments have been maintained by the hospital so that patients would not suffer.
During the inspection of the dispensary, she also checked the records of medicines available in the hospital.
Agarwal also expressed dismay on finding that patients were not given masks in the Tuberculosis department.
Mayor directed officials to spread awareness about breastfeeding's benefits as 'World Breastfeeding Day is going on.
Mayor was accompanied by Councillors Naveen Tyagi, Raja Iqbal, Avtar Singh, Additional Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Singh, Medical Superintendent of Hindu Rao hospital, Dr Ajeet Kumar Goel, Director Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis, Dr S K Gupta and other senior officials were also present.