Health Department intensifies anti-dengue and anti-chikungunya measures in Salem Corporation

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Health Department workers transportation  retired  vector power  drives successful  Salem Corporation connected  Sunday.

Health Department workers transportation retired vector power drives successful Salem Corporation connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E.

Following a noticeable increase successful chikungunya cases successful the confederate districts of the State, the Health Department has intensified anti-dengue and anti-chikungunya measures successful Salem Corporation.

Recently, the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH) issued a State-wide alert directing the territory administrations and municipality bodies to measurement up monitoring and mosquito power efforts. The DPH said that determination is simply a emergence successful chikungunya cases successful Chennai, Villupuram, Tenkasi, Theni, Cuddalore, Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, and Ariyalur.

Following this, the Health Department successful Salem Corporation has intensified the vector power drives.

Corporation’s wellness officials said they intensified source-reducing activities by ensuring h2o is not stored successful containers for long, successful accordance with DPH directions. Larval surveillance and periodic indoor fogging person been made mandatory. Residents should debar storing h2o successful vessels for much days and should usage nets successful beds and debar self-medication if they endure from precocious fever, terrible associated pain, musculus aches, and utmost drowsiness. They should attack the adjacent authorities hospitals for treatment, the officials added.

Salem Corporation Commissioner M. Elangovan said that capable measurement of bleaching powder, abate, pyrethrum, and method malathion are successful banal for anti-dengue and chikungunya measures. People should adjacent the containers utilized to store water. Sanitary inspectors and malaria workers volition inspect each household and region tyres, coconut shells, and unused things, which are the main sources of mosquito breeding. People should support their surroundings neat and cleanable and cooperate with the Corporation workers who are visiting residential buildings, helium added.

Published - January 25, 2026 06:35 p.m. IST

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