Additional Director (AD), Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Dr Manjula Singh has emphasised on launching a drive the entire year to prevent communicable disease and appealed to people to keep their houses and adjoining areas clean and add burnt mobil oil or anti-larvae chemical to stagnant water to prevent spread of diseases such as dengue and viral fever.
In view of the rise in the cases of dengue and viral fever in the district, Dr Manjula, along with the incharge of divisional entomological team Dr Amit Kumar Singh, senior lab technician Parashuram Giri, insect collection worker Sanjeet Kumar, incharge of district team sector-I Ajay Kumar Mishra and team of Domestic Breeding Checker (DBC) visited some areas of the city on Thursday to test the larvae of mosquitoes. During a visit to Kaivalyadham Colony, Dr Manjula and team found heaps of garbage in many vacant plots and larvae (aedes) of mosquitoes in the drinking bowl of animals near a hospital. The team members got the bowl cleaned. Dr Majula and team also visited the houses in the colony and made the residents aware about dengue and other mosquitoes-borne diseases. The DBC team sprinkled anti-larvae and also destroyed the source of this disease. During the visit to Gayatri Nagar Colony, waterlogging was also found in some houses because of no facility of drainage and the team sprinkled the anti-larvae and residents were also made aware about it. Dr Manjula laid an emphasis on launching a drive the entire year to prevent communicable diseases and appealed to people to keep their houses and adjoining areas clean to prevent diseases such dengue and viral fever. She also appealed to people to add burnt mobil oil or anti-larvae chemical to stagnant water, change the water cooler once in a week, use mosquito net while sleeping, wear clothes covering the whole body and visit a health centre after noticing symptoms of fever.