Campaign to check diseases in villages

The health department teams will fan out into each and every village in Rajasthan and check the locals for various ailments while undertaking activities to prevent outbreak of seasonal diseases, state health minister Kali Charan Saraf Monday said.

The initiative is being taken under ‘Mera Gaon, Swasth Gaon’ (My village, Healthy Village) campaign and it will be run along with the revenue Lok Adalat campaign – Nyay Aapke Dwar.

Addressing media here, Saraf the campaign will be launched on May 1 and continue till June 30. He said the need for such a campaign was felt as 75 per cent of the Rajasthan population resides in villages.

Ahead of the two-month long campaign, orientation workshops will be organized for around 7.22 lakh members of the village health and sanitation committees (VHSC) and Mahila Arogya Samitis in 43,440 villages across the state, Saraf said. Auxiliary nursing midwives (ANMs) and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) along with the VHSC members will then conduct a door-to-door survey.

The teams would provide medical help to villagers suffering from influenza like illness, diarrhoea, sunstroke, hypertension, jaundice, diabetes, tuberculosis, and fever with joint pain etc.

The health teams will also take steps to prevent outbreak of seasonal diseases and take measures to control the breeding of mosquitoes.

Additional chief secretary, health department, Veenu Gupta said as per the scheduled programme, review meetings will be held at the level of district collector on April 23 and 24, followed by review meetings of the preparations for the drive at block and sub-division level on April 25 and 26.

Gupta said that at the camps to be organized during Nyay Aapke Dwar campaign in villages, patients will be provided with facilities such as collection of blood and stool samples, along with routine check-up of blood pressure and blood sugar. There will be an emphasis on developing tobacco-free institutions including schools, anganwadi centres, health institutions, gram panchayats and Atal seva kendras.

Medical education secretary Anand Kumar, Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation managing director Mahaveer Sharma, director public health Dr VK Mathur, additional director Dr SN Dholpuria, medical education director Bachnesh Agarwal, Sawai Man Singh Medical College principal Dr US Agarwal and others were also present.

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