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PREVENTIVE PRESCRIPTION: Health Minister K. Rosaiah sprays mosquito repellant while inaugurating a free medicine centre for chikungunya at Gandhi Bhavan in the city on Friday. -- Photo: Satish H.
HYDERABAD: Health Minister K. Rosaiah and Congress Pradesh Committee president K. Keshava Rao on Friday appealed to party workers to launch a campaign to create awareness on chikungunya and distribute free medicines to the needy. Addressing city MLAs, corporators and party workers at Gandhi Bhavan here, Mr. Rosaiah, explained the various features of the disease and said chikungunya was not fatal. "This message has to reach the public so that the current scare is done away with. There is no dearth of medicine and any party worker can take up campaigns in his or her own locality," he said. Mr. Rao said a concrete programme would be chalked out by Saturday on how to go about setting up mini camps in all the 100 divisions in the twin cities. The camps would distribute pamphlets on chikungunya apart from distributing homoeopathy pills to prevent the virus. The PCC president and Minister also exhorted the cadre to lead sanitation drives in their areas along with helping out the health authorities to speed up fogging and spraying activities. The 60 medical teams that were pressed into service to check the spread of viral fever and chikungunya in the city visited 40 bastis on Friday, screening 4,493 cases. There were only three suspected cases of chikungunya, all of which were admitted in the Fever Hospital in Nallakunta. District medical and health officer S. Satyavathi said 4,063 cases were minor ailments, while 247 were identified as viral fever and were given medicines accordingly. Fifty-four people complained of viral fever with reactive arthritis while 26 were identified as diarrhoea.
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