TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CONSTITUTED FOR USE OF FOGGING<\/p>\n
-Medical & Health Minister<\/p>\n
Jaipur, September 22. Keeping in view the possibility of spread of mosquito borne diseases due to presence of moisture in atmosphere after heavy rains in the state, a committee has been constituted for providing technical suggestions in regard to use of fogging as a anti-mosquito measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Medical and Health Minister, Dr. Digambar Singh, while reviewing the steps taken to prevent the seasonal diseases at a meeting held here on Thursday, informed that the committee would submit its report in three days on technical aspects relating to density of mosquitoes, their behaviour and role in spread of the disease, the use of fogging to control them and the affect of fogging on the health of the people in Jaipur city. <\/p>\n
He informed that the Joint Director, Jaipur Zone Dr. B.R. Meena has included in the committee as public health specialist, Senior Specialist (Medicine) Dr. Mahendra Surana as Medical Specialist, Joint Director, Entomology, Government of India Dr. K.K. Mathur as Pesticides Specialist. The Assistant Director, Entomology of the State Government, Dr. B.S. Rathore has also been included in the committee. <\/p>\n
Dr. Singh said that if according to the report of the committee, fogging would be considered useful than pests would be controlled through fogging first of all in the Jaipur city. After that committees would be constituted in other urban areas of the state and arrangements for fogging be made according to their recommendations. He said that before undertaking fogging the general public would be educated about the precautions to be taken during the fogging. <\/p>\n
It was informed in the meeting that under the ‘house to house ‘ survey campaign, 53 teams had undertaken a survey of 1769 houses in seven zones of Jaipur city. Of these spray activities was taken up in 147 houses and anti larva activities in 711 houses, while coolers and tanks were emptied in 1619 houses. The teams also collected blood samples of 152 patients suffering from fever and not a single malaria positive case was found. <\/p>\n
The Principal Secretary Medical and Health, Shri Sudhir Bhargava, Director Public Health Dr. V.K. Kaushik, Director Family Welfare Dr.S.P. Yadav, Director AIDS Dr. Satish Kumar and Additional Director Rural Health Dr. M.L. Jain were present in the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rajasthan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}