The health awareness campaign of the Kochi Corporation, in the wake
of monsoon, will be launched next week. This includes cleaning drives
and mobile medical camps mainly intended to prevent any outbreak of
contagious diseases during the monsoon.  According to Corporation
officials, sanitation committees have been formed in all the divisions
and three dry days were observed in each division under the Corporation.

“We
are planning to launch mobile homeo camps at busy areas in the city
from June first week. The camps are being organised as part of our
pre-monsoon epidemic prevention drive and medicines will be distributed
free of cost to the public from our mobile unit. The camps will mainly
focus on in places like bus station, boat jetty, railway station and
market,” said Kochi Corporation health standing Committee chairman T K
Ashraf.

He said that after the three-day camp, the Corporation
will also organise awareness campaigns in various colonies across the
city to educate the residents on the need for keeping the premises clean
and tidy during the rainy season to help prevent outbreak of
monsoon-related diseases.

Last year during the monsoon, an average
of 708 cases of fever and monsoon-related diseases were reported from
various parts of the district. The health officials believe that this
year, the number of cases are likely to decrease as the Department has
already launched necessary preventive measures.

Regarding the
preventive measures to curb mosquito menace, Ashraf said that the
decentralised mosquito control measures will ensure that mosquito
breeding is curbed. “The sanitation committee will be in charge of
making sure that the health awareness programmes are carried out in
their respective divisions. The pre-monsoon epidemic prevention drive is
being carried out with the support of  National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM),” he said.