Uttarakhand State Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi passed the stern instructions to the health officials to take stringent steps to prevent and control the vector borne diseases in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions.
He also cleared that the strict action would be surely taken against those medical officers, who are found guilty of lethargic during duty. While chairing the inter-department at Vidhan Sabha in Dehradun on Tuesday, Negi instructed officials to provide the proposal on controlling the vector borne diseases to the medical, health and family welfare department.
Negi said that that the department should frame the proposal for preventing the vector borne diseases in January in order to take effective measures to prevent disease to turn epidemic in the near future. He also instructed officials to fill all the vacant posts in the department in order to complete all pending works in the given time frame.
It was also decided in the meeting to take assistance from common masses, private practitioners and private hospitals under epidemic act in order to prevent the spreading of vector borne diseases to the healthy individual. Negi also instructed officials to make sure the flow of information focusing vector borne diseases from private hospitals to chief medical officers of the respective diseases.
Director General (Infor-mation) Meenakshi Sundaram informed that the wide publicity has become a regular feature through private electronic channels in order to create awareness among the masses on vector borne diseases. It was also expected from the Municipal Corporation to do intense fogging on regular intervals in order to prevent vector borne diseases to the healthy individuals and to initiate series of meetings with the common man.
It was also expected from the urban development department to identify those places, where mosquitoes can breed and to take effective measures to control it. Negi said that the cleaning of drainage system, under Jawahar Rozgar Yojna by Panchyati Raj Department and special cleanliness drive should be also launched.
It was also decided in the meeting that students would be sensitised on vector borne related diseases during school prayers and by holding seminars in school for creating awareness among masses whereas Peyjal Nigam will ensure the leakage free potable water supply to the consumers across the State.