The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun, Dr Y S Thapliyal chaired a meeting of district level monitoring committee on prevention of water borne diseases and Dengue control at his office on Wednesday.
Addressing the meeting, the CMO said that personal and community sanitation is necessary to prevent water borne diseases like Cholera, Jaundice and diarrhea. Similarly diseases spread by mosquito like dengue, malaria and Chickungunia can be prevented by not allowing the mosquitoes to breed near the human habitation. He said that there is a need to create awareness in the society about these diseases. The CMO directed the officials of child development department to make the children of Aanganwadi centre aware on personal hygiene.
Similarly the school children should be educated about keeping their surroundings clean, he said. Epidemiologist, Dr Piyush Augustine made an elaborate presentation on the water and mosquito borne diseases on the occasion.
He said hat the menace of such diseases is high in the slums where sanitation conditions are poor. The meeting was also attended by Dr R K Singh, Dr Puneet Chandra, district malaria officer Jagdish Prasad and others.