Health Department warns residents of impending dengue season

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 15

Already grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, the health department has another reason to worry this season —- vector-borne diseases.

Urging residents to take precautions, health staff of Shahkot block today launched an awareness campaign to warn residents of the impending dengue season. They celebrated ‘Friday-Friday’ under the guidance of Senior Medical Officer Dr Amardeep Singh Duggal and under the supervision of BEE Chandan Mishra.

ANM and Asha workers went door to door to make people aware of steps to be taken to prevent the breeding of aedes aegypti – the mosquito causing dengue. Multipurpose health supervisors and workers urged residents to maintain regular cleanliness and prevent water logging.

Dr Duggal said National Dengue Day was celebrated on May 16 every year. “Also, every Friday, the department, under the ‘Friday-Friday’ campaign, motivates people to clean the sources of water and prevent water logging in their homes. Since it is not possible to call people at one place and give them information amid the Covid outbreak, employees will go door to door and make people aware about it,” the SMO said.

Explaining the importance of ‘Friday-Friday’, Block Extension Educator Chandan Mishra said the department had set the day to make it a habit for people to clean water logging and mosquito breeding sites. He said once a week, if they cleaned or changed the water of cooler and other things, the larva of dengue mosquito died.

Awareness campaign

• Urging residents to take precautions, health staff of Shahkot block today launched an awareness campaign to warn residents of the impending dengue season. They celebrated ‘Friday-Friday’ under the guidance of Senior Medical Officer Dr Amardeep Singh Duggal and under the supervision of BEE Chandan Mishra
• Explaining the importance of ‘Friday-Friday’, Block Extension Educator Chandan Mishra said the department had set the day to make it a habit for people to clean water logging and mosquito breeding sites.

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