Three drives in July against corona, vector-borne diseases

LUCKNOW: The state health and family welfare department will launch three drives in July to protect the people from coronavirus infection and vector-borne diseases.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will launch a month-long vector-borne disease control drive in a programme organized at the CM’s official residence on Wednesday. The Covid surveillance programme will be launched in six districts of Meerut division on July 2. The Dastak campaign to protect children from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) will be launched on July 16.

Addressing a press conference, additional chief secretary, health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad said the vectorborne disease control drive would be launched in all the 75 districts on Wednesday. The Chief minister would launch the campaign in Lucknow and the hHealth and family welfare minister in Siddharth Nagar district, Minister of state, health and family welfare would launch the drive in Bahraich, the medical education minister would launch it in Hardoi district and the ministers of other departments, MPs and MLAs would launch the drive in various districts, he said.

The health department in

coordination with the urban development department, rural development department, revenue department, education department, panchayati raj department, agriculture department, handicap welfare department and irrigation department would launch cleanliness, fogging, sanitization, sprinkling of insecticide, immunization and awareness programmes in all the districts to protect the people

from malaria, Dengue, filariasis, chikungunya, kalazar, Japanese Encephalitis and other vectorborne diseases, he said.

With the onset of the monsoon, the outbreak of vector-borne disease is reported in the state.

The state health department will launch a fortnight long Dastak campaign from July 16 to 31 in all the districts. The ASHA workers will visit each household to create awareness among people .