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Anti-malaria drive to be intensified

By Our Staff Reporter

TUTICORIN, MARCH. 3. Plans are afoot to intensify anti-malaria drive in the town and strengthen the Solid Waste Management programme, in an effort to improve the living conditions of the people, S. Chelladurai, Municipal Health Officer, has said.

Speaking to The Hindu recently, he said as part of anti-malaria drive, intensive measures would be initiated to destroy larvae and adult mosquitoes.

"To kill adult mosquitoes, we will use fogging machines to spray insecticide, at two wards everyday," he said, adding the aim was to rid the town of malaria.

Dr. Chelladurai said incidence of malaria had been drastically brought down in the last six months. While 70 malaria cases were reported from the municipal limits on August last, there were only six cases reported during February.

Free medical assistance was provided to those down with malaria at various municipal health centres, Dr. Chelladurai said.

Solid Waste Management

On measures adopted to strengthen the ongoing Solid Waste Management programme,Dr. Chelladurai said the municipality had chalked out elaborate plans to conduct an array of sensitisation programmes with the help of Self Help Groups, to create awareness of segregation of wastes at source.

Residents should segregate the wastes as wet and dry at the primary level itself before handing it over to the eight collection centres situated within the municipal areas.

"We are aiming at substantially increasing the quantum of wastes transported to the compost yard at Tharuvaikulam by improving the secondary level collections."

At the moment 102-106 tonnes of municipal wastes were transported to the compost yard daily.

This apart, the municipality plans to introduce `wind rows' method at the compost yard to turn the wastes into manure, sales of which could bring additional revenue to the municipal exchequer, Dr. Chelladurai added.

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