The Health and Family Welfare Department will launch two-day mass campaign for eradicating Filariasis from Monday as part of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme.
Officials on Sunday stated that medicines including Albendazole and Diethylcarbamazine would be distributed to the citizens under the programme.
Notably, as many as 36,922 Health workers, Anganwadi workers and Self-Help Groups are assigned duties for the door-to-door exercise.
The State Government is targetting to offer the medicines to around 1.33 crore villagers of 8,271 villagers free-of-cost.
State Programme Officer (Malaria) Dr KR Sonwani and Raipur District Programme Officer (Malaria) Dr VK Roy informed around 25.71 lakh people had been given the medicine during the ‘Mass Drug Consumption Campaign’ during 2014-15.
Children below the age of 2 years, Pregnant women and patients with serious diseases were not given the Anti-Filariasis medicines, said officials.
The Health workers have surveyed 11 districts of the State during night hours when the Filariasis larvae remains active.
Residents of these marked districts would be covered in the present drive. It includes Raipur, Raigarh, Baloda Bazar- Bhatapara, Bilaspur, Mahasamund, Surguja, Gariaband, Surajpur, Mungeli, Dhamtari and Balrampur-Ramanujganj.
The marked population in these districts will be given the doses from Monday onwards.
Officials are also urging healthy denizens to take the medicine dosage in order to prevent the infection.