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Corporation to flag off health awareness campaign

Thursday, 30 May 2013 09:33 administrator
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The New Indian Express                 30.05.2013

Corporation to flag off health awareness campaign

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.

 

Door-to-door survey from today in Bangalore

Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:23 administrator
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The Hindu                 30.05.2013

Door-to-door survey from today in Bangalore

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In Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits, 1,200 teams of five persons each, comprising Health Department officials and students, will undertake a door-to-door survey from Thursday to identify larvae-breeding centres and to educate people eliminating mosquito breeding places.

Similar exercise will be replicated in all city corporation limits across the State.

If property owners fail to clear larvae-breeding centres even after the advice, the local bodies have been asked to impose a penalty on them. If the owners they do not mend their ways even after levying penalty, the building licence has to be cancelled, Madan Gopal, Principal Secretary of the department, said.

 

PCMC to buy Tamiflu syrup from chemist

Wednesday, 29 May 2013 12:21 administrator
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The Times of India                29.05.2013 

PCMC to buy Tamiflu syrup from chemist

PUNE: Unable to get Tamiflu syrup used for treating children affected by swine flu from the state government, the health department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation ( PCMC) has decided to buy 300 bottles it from a private chemist.

The health department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has not been able to get a syrup which is given to children who are suspected to have been affected with swine flu. The corporation has therefore decided to purchase it from private chemists.

S B Gaikwad, PCMC's acting medical officerof health, said, the health department is not getting the syrup from the state government.

"We have proposed to purchase the syrup from a private hospital's chemist. We need a stock of these medicines. Adults, who are suspected to be suffering from H1N1, are given Tamiflu tablets while the children suspected to be suffering from H1N1 are prescribed the syrup," he said.The health department has sought the civic administration's permission for purchasing the syrup from a private chemist at a cost of Rs 1.31 lakh.

According to the health officials, the department will soon exhaust its stock. A health department official said the number of positive and suspected patients goes up during the are detected more in monsoon and winter, though the number remains less during summer. The number of patients who are given Tamiflu tablets or syrup varies every dayfrom day to day.

Since this January, as many as 3.83 lakh patients have been treated at the outpatient departments of the civic hospitals out of which 35,940 patients were suffering from influenza like illnesses. Tamiflu was given to a total of 5,293 patients, a health official said.

 
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