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KM C to launch drive against vector-borne diseases from Feb 21

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From February 21, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will start a drive against vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. It will continue till June.

The Health Department of the civic body has made a detailed list of the disease-prone areas in its jurisdiction, which comprises 144 wards. The drive will be conducted in the dry season so that outbreaks can be prevented during the monsoon.

Besides the Health Department, officials of the Solid Waste Management, Engineering, Project Management Unit and Building Departments, and the State Public Health Engineering Department, will take part in the drive.

Source: The Statesman

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Joint action plan to check & counter vector-borne diseases

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The State Health Department has prepared a district-wise joint action plan to strengthen the surveillance process and help health workers to carry out effective drives against vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya and others.

The plan stresses on the importance of better surveillance and supervision in the districts. It comprises of a three-tier system of committees – a state-level monitoring committee, district-level monitoring teams and local vector-control teams.

Local vector-control teams will visit houses to make a list of places where mosquito larvae have been found and then hand over the lists to their respective sanitary inspectors, who would in turn hand them over to sanitary supervisors. These visits are going to be carried out on a regular basis.

From them, the reports would pass on to the district vector control teams, comprising of the district magistrate and the chief medical officer of health (CMOH), among others.

The CMOHs will prepare surveillance reports on a daily basis and submit them to the State Health Department, whose state-level monitoring committee will then chalk out plans on how to check the spread of the diseases after considering the problems of a particular area.

The district committees will also guide the health workers and formulate resource mobilisation.

Source: Millennium Post

Govt not to tolerate any negligence in dengue cases: Bengal CM

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Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the State Government will not tolerate any kind of negligence to tackle dengue cases in the state. In her speech during the Assembly session, she said that everybody has to work together to prevent further spread of the disease.

“The State Government did not neglect diseases like dengue, malaria and encephalitis,” she said. She emphasised on taking preventive measures and asked the MLA s of the Opposition parties for helping the State Government to spread awareness of this disease.

She also said that the State Government has taken several drives to combat the deadly mosquito-borne virus. During this campaign, 87,000 additional workers have been deployed for cleaning of roads, drains, water bodies, regular lifting of waste and garbage from roads, markets,hospitals and major places of the town, scientific management of solid waste by way of using around 200 compactors.

Various cleanliness activities are being undertaken in each ward by involving councillors, health functionaries, self-help groups, ICDS workers, conservancy workers, schools, colleges, clubs, market committee members and various government organisations. In all, the 125 municipalities intensive awareness campaigns are being conducted to spread health awareness on vector-borne diseases.

 

ডেঙ্গু মোকাবিলায় কোনও গাফিলতি বরদাস্ত করা হবে না: মুখ্যমন্ত্রী

ডেঙ্গু মোকাবিলায় কর্তব্যে কোনও গাফিলতি বরদাস্ত করা হবে না একথা জানিয়ে দিলেন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়৷ বিধানসভায় এদিন তিনি তাঁর বক্তব্যে বলেন, ‘ডেঙ্গু নিয়ে রাজনীতি করা উচিত নয়৷ এই সময়ে রাজ্যের পাশে থাকা উচিত বিরোধীদের’৷ অন্যদিকে, ডেঙ্গু মোকাবিলায় কড়া ব্যবস্থা নিয়েছে কলকাতা পুরসভা৷

তিনি বলেন, “রাজ্য সরকার ডেঙ্গু, ম্যালেরিয়া এবং এনসেফালাইটিসের মত রোগ অবহেলা করে না”। তিনি প্রতিরোধমূলক ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণ করার ওপর গুরুত্ব আরোপ করেন এবং এই রোগ সম্পর্কে সচেতনতা ছড়িয়ে দিতে বিরোধী দলের বিধায়কদের রাজ্য সরকারকে সাহায্য করার কথা বলেন।

তিনি আরও বলেন, যে সরকার মশাবাহিত বিভিন্ন রোগের বিরুদ্ধে অনেক প্রতিরোধমূলক ব্যবস্থা নিয়েছে। রাস্তা, ড্রেন, জলাশয়, বর্জ্য ও রাস্তাঘাট, বাজার, হাসপাতাল ও শহরের বিভিন্ন স্থান পরিষ্কার করার জন্য ৮৭,০০০ অতিরিক্ত শ্রমিক মোতায়েন করা হয়েছে এবং ২০০টি কম্প্যাক্টর বসানো হয়েছে।

বিভিন্ন কাউন্সিলরসহ স্বাস্থ্য কর্মকর্তা, স্বনির্ভর গোষ্ঠী, আই সি ডি এস কর্মী, শ্রমিক, স্কুল, কলেজ, ক্লাব, বাজার কমিটির সদস্য ও বিভিন্ন সরকারি প্রতিষ্ঠানের দ্বারা প্রতিটি ওয়ার্ডে পরিষ্কার পরিচ্ছনতার কাজ শুরু হয়েছে। সব মিলিয়ে ১২৫টি পৌরসভায় মশা বাহিত বিভিন্ন রোগের জন্য সচেতনতামূলক কাজ শুরু হয়েছে।

KMC gears up to fight vector borne diseases

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The Trinamool Congress board at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is out to tame vector borne diseases as they might cause embarrassment to the Mamata Banerjee government prior to the assembly polls next summer.

The KMC’s health department has organised a workshop for all private medical practitioners to sensitise them on the new guidelines on clinical management of dengue – a potentially fatal disease. The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) director would be the main speaker of the sensitisation workshop at Uttam Mancha on August 1.

Earlier, in February, all civic councillors, medical officers and selected health field workers attended an awareness camp on vector borne diseases at Uttam Mancha. KMC authorities are inviting around 800-900 private medical practitioners across Kolkata for the August 1 workshop.

The workshop would also be a refresher course for the medical officers. It is the medical officers and health field workers who take on the challenge on the ground to minimise the attack of vector borne diseases. So, it becomes necessary for us to sensitise them at regular intervals.

KMC authorities have invited 10 neighbouring municipalities in a bid to chalk out a combined fight against malaria and dengue. KMC’s health department has called a high-level meeting with chairmen or representatives of neighbouring municipalities at the civic headquarters on Thursday.

“Combating mosquito-borne diseases cannot be done alone. So, we want to involve our neighbouring municipalities to ensure a malaria and dengue free city,” Atin Ghosh, Member, Mayor-in-Council (Health), said.

KMC has been seeking funds from the Centre to beef up infrastructure in these municipalities. Joint secretary of the Union health ministry who looks after the National Urban Health Mission is coming to Kolkata on August 1 and a meeting is scheduled with all stakeholders, which includes all these neighbouring municipalities also.

KMC health department officials want to train the officials of the neighbouring municipalities on Thursday prior to meeting the Union health ministry bosses. This meeting could pave the way for central funding for infrastructure development.

The neighbouring municipalities include Howrah, Madhyamgram, North and South Dum Dum, Bidhannagar, Rajarhat Goplapur, Mahestala, Sonarpur and Baruipur, among others.

 

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