Having a bitter experience of loss of many lives due to dengue in the year 2016, the Keonjhar district administration is now gearing up preventive measures against the vector-born disease with help of the Rungta Mines ltd (RMl) and other corporate houses.
The RMl has undertaken a drive of spraying of medicine and smoke to eliminate lava and mosquitoes from different parts of Barbil. Besides, it has initiated an awareness programme to inform people to see that water is not stocked in open pots, old tyres and abandoned truck trolleys for more days.
It has engaged vehicles for creating awareness about preventive measures against breeding of mosquitoes that causes dengue and other vector-borne diseases. locals women organisations like the Mahila Mahasngha Samabaya Samitee ltd and the Kasturaba Nari Sakti are assisting the company.