To prevent malaria and dengue a mass awareness campaign was flagged off by DVC hospital, district civil surgeon and WHO at station club Bokaro Thermal here on Friday evening.
The campaign is being run in some of the f the highly affected villages of Nawadih block for the past
few years.
Similar activities were held in high risk populated Palamu village. DVC chief engineer and project head Kamlesh Kumar,while inaugurating the campaign, said there was an urgent need to involve people in National Vector Borne Disease Control programme
Dr Hemant Kumar MD and Ex-Sr specialist of DVC hospital emphasised that due to change in weather conditions, especially early arrival of monsoon, residents were required to be more vigilant. He made an appeal to the people drain out water from coolers and scrub them dry once a week,
Dr Kumar further requested the residents to get their blood examined ,in case of a fever. While Dr Nitish Kumar DVC hospital Bokaro Thermal said dengue and malaria mosquitoes needed fresh and stagnant water for lying eggs and these places commonly found inside our hoses not in sewage, dirty water and garbage .so this kind of awareness would help to prevent diseases like dengue and malaria,
Dr Kumar further added, Earlier the day on Friday morning the villagers of Palamu were made aware about dengue and malaria by beating the drum and covering every nook and corner of the village by the person of the team.
While the second half of the day was an educational and interactive session for medical and paramedic staff of DVC BTPS hospital in the OPD complex where civil surgeon ,DTO ,DMO ,DRCHO ,DNCDO ,SO ,MO Nawadih ,MO Verma and SMO WHO were present in addition to all the staff of DVC hospital .