In a bid to contain the outbreak and spread of seasonal diseases, the district administration carried out special health check-up on over 3,000 people.The medical teams held 32 health check-up camps in rural areas and four in the urban areas of the district in a bid to contain the spread of seasonal diseases.
Many parts of the stats are hit with outbreak of seasonal diseases including jaundice forcing the Government to focus on exploring the ways and means to contain their spread. According to district Collector Ashok Agrawal, special health check-up camps were held in four places such as Kasaipara, Karinbhat, Ganesh Mandir and Garon Nagar, besides 32 other locations in the rural areas in the district.
More than 3,000 people were diagnosed but not a single case of jaundice was reported. The drive to hold health check-up camps was aimed at arresting the spread of the seasonal diseases.
Agrawal also issued instruction to the medical teams to collect samples of sources of their water to verify if there was anything wrong with water they use. Chief Medical and Health Officer and Civil Surgeon Dr CS Mahab said ANMs were going house to house to find out jaundice patient if any and briefed the resident about the symptoms and causes of seasonal and other contagious diseases.
The medical teams, he said also provided adequate medicines to them for diseases such as cough, cold, fever, diarrhea and other seasonal diseases.