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With the onset of monsoon, Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha conducted a gathering present connected Monday to measure the State’s preparedness successful preventing seasonal diseases and strengthening nationalist wellness measures.
During the meeting, Director of Public Health Ravinder Naik briefed the Minister connected the prevailing concern concerning seasonal illnesses including dengue, malaria, chikungunya, diarrhoea and typhoid. He presented district-wise information connected reported cases and outlined the preparedness of authorities hospitals, availability of medicines and diagnostic kits, mosquito power activities, fever surveys and ongoing consciousness campaigns.
The Minister said nationalist wellness remains the government’s precedence and stressed that preventing outbreaks should beryllium the Health Department’s superior absorption alternatively than simply treating patients aft infections spread.
He instructed that each authorities hospitals crossed the State should stay afloat prepared with capable stocks of medicines, diagnostic kits, ORS packets and platelets, too ensuring the availability of aesculapian unit and exigency services. He besides directed officials to guarantee that each diligent presenting with symptoms of fever, dengue, malaria oregon different seasonal illnesses is tested promptly and provided contiguous treatment.
Calling for intensified mosquito power measures successful coordination with the Municipal Administration and Panchayat Raj Departments, helium stressed the effectual implementation of the play ‘Dry Day’ programme each Friday.
The Minister besides asked officials to wage peculiar attraction to high-risk locations specified arsenic villages, municipality localities, schools, hostels and operation sites. He directed Accredited Social Health Activists and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives to undertake door-to-door consciousness campaigns and amended residents connected preventive measures against seasonal diseases.
