Steps to make city malaria free:

Strict surveillance: Around 100 people will be deployed for strict surveillance and they will check every house in the city. They will also check the mosquitos breeding sites.

Awareness campaign: Information education activities will be organized in school colonies and high-risk areas. Also, they will take help of short films to spread awareness of the disease.

Targeting migratory population: According to the reports, most of the cases reported in the migratory population who bring a disease from their hometowns. So main focus will be on the migratory population.

A Nodal officer in every UT department: A nodal officer will be appointed in every UT departments and that officer will ensure about the mosquitos breeding around that area.

Notified disease: All private and government health department will inform nodal officer about a new case of malaria.

Helpline number: The helpline number is 9779558282 and people can call on this number for taking more information about the disease and also tell about mosquito breeding spots.

Rules For Prevention of Malaria:

UT health department is planning to amend the rules for the prevention and to control malaria, dengue, 2014, and they are going to make laws more strict. Presently, the challan fees for the defaulters is only Rs 500 but they are going to increase it by June this year. The department is all set to take stern actions against the defaulters and will seal the places where mosquito breeding is found positive.

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Malaria and Dengue are expected to spread but till now no breeding point has been suspected so that is why the Health department has already started the preparation to tackle the vector-borne diseases in Chandigarh.

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Details of the Mobile App

• It will contain the details of doctors
• Residents can register their complaints here(like water stagnation)

Benefits of the Mobile App

• Residents could contact the doctors easily.
• Complaints could be solved at a faster rate.
• No standing in queues for complaint registration.
• The lesser spread of the disease.
• Residents would be updated to take precautions.

The department has started the process to hold meetings with councilors for creating awareness in their respective wards. They will hold awareness camps in the city schools to educate the students to keep their surroundings clean. The officials are keeping a strict check on the fields and the residential areas that no stagnant water is left as such for a breeding point.

So far, no dengue or malaria has been found positive in the city. The number of chikungunya cases, however, continues to be reported in the city. At the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, 47 people from the city were tested positive for chikungunya. Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, the Chandigarh health department has stepped up its surveillance activities in the city to prevent the possible outbreak of the disease.

Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, The Chandigarh health department is now conscious about the spread of disease in the city and is taking all the possible measures to prevent the outbreak of the disease.

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