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Alappuzha
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ALAPPUZHA, SEPT. 15. The mass drug therapy programme of the Health Department, which is a part of the National Filariasis Eradication Project, would be held on September 24 in the district, the Alappuzha DMO, N.K. Velayudhan, has said. Specially trained volunteers of the Health Department would visit houses and shops and other institutions in the district on the date to supply medicines, said Dr Velayudhan. He said the tablets which would be supplied as a part of the therapy were safe and effective. But children below the age of two years, pregnant women and those suffering from major illnesses have been exempted from the therapy, he added. The tablets should be taken after consuming food, the DMO said. Dr Velayudhan said that the mass drug therapy programme had been launched in 1997 with the aim of wiping out filariasis by 2015. It had been started under the guidance of the WHO, said Dr Velayudhan.
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