IN THE TRAIL OF MALARIA DEATH AND DEVASTATION Ivestigation team visited remote & inaccessible villages of kalyansingh ADC village namely GIRACHARAN PARA, WANASA PARA & KRISHNACHANDRA PARA. malaria outbreak manifestation were evident as early as middle of may but health administration woke up after 10th june when already 9 people were dead. The plight of tripuris in the far flung villages were evident from the malnourished, pale looking, half clad, impoverist jhumias. Deserted infant in the bamboo make tong ghars, whos parents were struggling in the jhums, harvesting for 3 manths food, told all untold stories to the visitors. That reminded WHO slogan MALARIA IS A DISEASE OF POVERTY. Total lack of disease prevention activities like DDT spraying in advance, providing insecticide impregnated mosquito nets, blood sample collection in advance was not carried out before the death toll had mountain. Delegates of TYBM taken the blood sample of some villagers for malaria test. watch later post as the high rich experiences of investigating team being compiled and published. Studies of GANGANAGAR block also being compiled.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:27:54 +0000
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