The State Government’s efforts to contain the spread of water borne disease jaundice began to show signs of improvement in district Durg with no report of any fresh cases, said Director urban administration and development Rohit Yadav here on Thursday.
According to him, he visited the jaundice hit district and took stock of the measures the administration had taken to contain the menace of the jaundice in Durg.
The health department with the help of Durg Municipal Corporation jointly carried out special health check up camps to provide medicine and awareness tips to fight against the seasonal diseases especially jaundice.
These efforts, he said yielded encouraging result that the situation was improving and no report of fresh cases of jaundice and people voluntarily began to keep their environment clean.
He also reviewed the work to replace the water pipe line as part of the effort of Chief Minister Raman Singh to contain jaundice that required supply of clean drinking water. Many cases it was found that the water supply lines were the carriers of many seasonal diseases supplying contaminated water.
According to Yadav, Chief Minister had sanctioned Rs 9.20 crore for replacing the water supply lines to ensure supply of clean water. He also inspected the ongoing digging of bore-wells in seven places in district headquarters.
He also instructed the officials to change damaged pipelines and check the
water supply in every ward without fail.