Additional Director (Medical and Health), Varanasi Division, Dr Manjula Singh held a virtual meeting with Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Nodal Officers of Communicable Disease Control Campaign and District Malaria Officers of all the districts of the division including Varanasi, Chandauli, Ghazipur and Jaunpur here on Wednesday. She also reviewed the progress of the Dastak campaign and directed the concerned Health department officers that daily monitoring and weekly meetings of the campaign should be held. Reporting of the entire campaign should be done on the e-Kavach portal, she added. She also visited different areas to see the progress of the campaign.
She said that all the departments should work together for the prevention of communicable diseases and instructed the concerned employees to ensure regular cutting of bushes, cleaning of drains, removal dirty wastes and solving the problems of water logging in rural areas and added that the same should be done with the help of Panchayati Raj department. “Clean water should be arranged for the people. All family members should use the same toilets. Don't go out to defecate,” she said, adding that with the help of the Urban Development department, the work of cleaning, fogging and anti-larvicide spraying of clogged drains in urban areas should be completed on time.
Dr Manjula said that this campaign is an ambitious programme of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and recently, the Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak had taken a review meeting in Varanasi and inquired about the Communicable Disease Control and Dastak Abhiyan. Along with this, she directed the district level officers to conduct physical inspection.
Joint Director and Divisional Nodal Officer of Communicable Diseases Dr GC Dwivedi said that in pre-identified hot spot (high risk) areas of rural and urban areas, intensive supervision of anti-larvicide spraying and fogging as well as cleanliness is being done. He asked the vector surveillance teams to continuously monitor mosquito borne sources. “If a positive patient is found in an area, the Rapid Response Team should go there and do proper treatment. In case of serious condition, the patient should be referred to nearby CHCs/ PHCs.
Earlier, Dr Manjula Singh visited Tarna and Bhagatpur of Shivpur urban area and Bhelkha, Ganeshpur and Wajidpur of rural area in Harhua block and saw the arrangements for water logging, garbage collection, cleanliness, drainage etc. She directed the Panchayati Raj and Urban Development departments that appropriate action should be taken for garbage disposal, cleaning of drains, source destruction etc. On this occasion, District Malaria Officer Sharat Chand Pandey, Biologist and Zonal Entomologist Dr Amit Kumar Singh and ASHA workers were also present.