Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] March 15 (ANI): The Yogi authorities in UP will begin a particular marketing campaign from April 1 to regulate communicable illnesses, along with the ‘Dastak’ marketing campaign which is able to run from April 17 to 30, a launch mentioned.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given mandatory directions on this regard at a high-level assembly, officers from the Chief Minister’s workplace mentioned.
“He has directed the Chief Secretary to hold a coordination meeting with the Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary of the concerned departments and take stock of the preparations for the Communicable Disease Control Campaign. He has also directed them to engage the masses to take this important campaign forward. The Communicable Disease Control Campaign is run in three phases every year. This year the first phase of the campaign will be ending on April 30,” the assertion added.
It knowledgeable that this marketing campaign might be launched in all 75 districts of the state in opposition to infectious illnesses like encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya, malaria and kala-azar. “The Government is also gearing up to tackle the challenge of infectious and water-borne diseases through the ‘Dastak’ drive. Preparations have started for both campaigns to be run under the leadership of the Health Department. An action plan has been prepared for these campaigns to be run in coordination with 12 departments. Various activities will be conducted under this campaign to be run simultaneously in urban and rural areas,” it knowledgeable.
“Under the Communicable Disease Control Campaign, attention will be paid to cleanliness and water logging in rural and urban areas. Activities related to awareness for the prevention of diseases will be organized in schools. Along with this, activities will be conducted to control mosquitoes, rats, moles etc. Besides, people will be made aware of setting up animal enclosures and pig enclosures away from the population and maintaining cleanliness,” it added.
Under the Dastak marketing campaign, medical groups will go door-to-door to establish sufferers affected by infectious illnesses. The crew will embody Asha employees together with well being employees. With the assistance of the crew, the sufferers might be recognized and given medicines and admitted to the hospital, if mandatory. Information about malnourished youngsters can even be collected through the Dastak marketing campaign. Apart from this, sufferers with signs of TB might be searched and examined. Fogging might be carried out within the recognized areas on the premise of a door-to-door survey of high-risk areas through the Dastak marketing campaign, it added.
“Due to the special efforts made by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) have been effectively controlled in the state. Campaigns are being run from time to time to prevent diseases caused by viruses and bacteria,” it knowledgeable.
This marketing campaign is performed yearly in collaboration with different departments together with Medical and Health, Basic Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Irrigation and Animal Husbandry Department. (ANI)