Saharanpur, District Magistrate Manish Bansal inaugurated the special Communicable Disease Control Campaign from 01 October 2024 to 31 October 2024 and Dastak Campaign from 11 October to 31 October 2024 in the month of October 2024 as per the instructions of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government and flagged off the public awareness rally. Along with this, a free health camp was also inaugurated on the occasion of World Elderly Day. District Magistrate Manish Bansal said that the objective of Communicable Disease Control and Dastak Campaign is to make the public aware for the control of communicable diseases and to motivate them to know how to avoid diseases. Due to the celebration of Communicable Disease Fortnight and Communicable Month in previous years, there has been a significant decline in infectious diseases in the state. In this campaign, communicable diseases can be controlled with the help of ANM, ASHA and Anganwadi at district and block level. All preparations have been completed for wide-scale publicity (hoardings, banners, pamphlets and miking etc.) for prevention of communicable diseases in this campaign at district and block level. DM Manish Bansal directed all departments to work as per the target. He sought information from ASHA, Anganwadi and ANM by asking questions about communicable diseases/non-communicable diseases. He inspected the stalls set up by the departments and sought information from them about the programs. All the people were told to provide their cooperation in the communicable disease control campaign. So that communicable diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, TB, diarrhea etc. can be prevented. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Praveen Kumar said that along with effective control over communicable diseases and brain fever in the campaign, under the Dastak campaign, frontline workers (Asha) will prepare a list of fever patients, list of ILI patients, list of people with symptoms of tuberculosis, list of malnourished children, list of such houses area-wise where mosquito breeding has been found inside the houses etc. and will make it available at the block headquarters through the e-Kavach portal at the end of work every day along with their report. The campaign was inaugurated by the concerned officials at all the blocks and village levels. On the occasion of the launch of the campaign, a stall was set up for vector-borne disease control and prevention, in which information was given to the public about what to do and what not to do to prevent dengue, malaria and other communicable diseases. Cleaning of drains, closing of pits, spraying of anti-larva and fogging will be done from time to time by the Municipal Corporation, Saharanpur. District Malaria Officer Mrs. Shivanka Gaur told that as per the instructions of the government, ASHAs will go door to door to create awareness about communicable disease prevention and control activities in Dastak Abhiyan. Cleaning of drains and gutters, cutting of bushes and disposal of water logging, cleaning of toilets and drainage of water from the house will be done by the Gram Panchayat. The campaign will be monitored by WHO/DMC, whose report will be sent to the State Headquarters by WHO. All the departments will be able to make necessary improvements by automatically seeing the report of the work being done by them through the desk board issued by the State Headquarters. She told that the Medical and Health Department will work as a nodal department for coordination between various departments at the district, block and Panchayat/village levels for control activities on brain fever and other vector-borne diseases, water-borne diseases and diseases related to hot weather. The Urban Development Department will clean the drains, cut the bushes and dispose of the water logging along with fogging in the city area as per the roster. Anganwadi workers will prepare a list of all the malnourished and severely malnourished children in their area and provide them with proper nutrition and send them to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers for treatment and nutrition rehabilitation if necessary. Blood donation was organized by FBD organization in the blood bank of SBD District Hospital. Along with the inauguration of the camp by the District Magistrate, certificates were also distributed to the blood donors.
On this occasion, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Praveen Kumar, Chief Superintendent Dr. Ramanand, District Malaria Officer Mrs. Shivanka Gaud and hospital staff were present.