A leprosy case detection campaign in the district would be held from February 14 to 29 and during the period the trained health workers would be making door- to- door visit to bring the cases even that are under suspects for treatment to the hospitals.
ASHA and Anganwadi Workers would be engaged in the massive 10 days’ exercise while publicity would be made through various sources, including pamphlets, banners, print and electronic media platform. The publicity would be made in schools end educational institutions, besides in GP and Anganwadi centres . Sambha Rath would be going around all bocks to enhance and generate awareness about the campaign and remove blind belief and superstations among the people .
Regarding the ensuing identification programme, while a meeting was held on Friday under the chairmanship of district Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy, CDMO Banarjee Prasad Chottray ,ADMO Anantayami Mishra , Dr SS Chaudhary and Dr Tapan Mohapatra were among others who attended the meeting.
It was informed that the leprosy rate in State in 2018-19 was 23.2 per 10 lakh population and in Baleswar district it was 7.05 per 10 lakh . Last year 20 cases were identified by the team during survey.
Following training in the bock level after door to door survey and identification, the report would be submitted by March 6.