Reiterating his Government’s commitment to eradicate encephalitis from eastern part of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that villagers need to keep ponds and other waterbodies ‘clean’ to fight this dreaded disease which is taking hundreds of lives of children every year.
“You cannot fight this disease if you cannot keep waterbodies clean. It is the responsibility of the villagers to keep area around their villages clean. The State Government will extend all possible help to the villagers,” Yogi said while addressing a function after distribution of mechanised instruments for divyangs in Deoria on Sunday.
He said that JE spread through bite of mosquito but more dangerous AES (Acquired Encephalitis Syndrom) spreads through polluted water. The virus and bacteria of this dreaded disease pass into ground water when we do not main cleanliness. “We can beat this dreaded AES only if we can keep our environment clean,” he said.
A drive must be initiated to clean all the rivers, ponds and other waterbodies in cities, towns and villages under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Chief Minister said.