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Municipality to get fogging machines

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Sensitisation programme for the Council held

Puducherry: Health Minister E. Valsaraj has said that the Health Department will equip the Puducherry Municipal Council with at least eight fogging machines at a cost of Rs. 60 lakh for the drive against mosquitoes.

Inaugurating a one-day intensive sensitisation programme for the 42 councillors under a State Health Mission scheme here on Thursday, Mr. Valsaraj said that the incidence of stray dogs and pigs causing nuisance to the pedestrians and residents in various pockets caused concern. The moment the Government launched a drive to impound the animals, there was a strong protest from several quarters. He said that there was a need to eradicate mosquitoes as new types of fever like chikungunya had arrived to affect the young and the old.

He urged that the municipality to use the machines without keeping them as ornamental pieces on its premises. He said that the health delivery system here had been benefiting even patients hailing from other States.

Chairperson of the Municipal Council B. Sridevi said that the health authorities should help the municipal council in curbing mosquito menace. Secretary to Health T.M. Balakrishnan said that as per the Centre's directive, the administration was implementing an integrated health care programme to prevent leprosy, tuberculosis, filariasis and blindness through NRHM. Committees would be formed to take care of the primary health centres's requirements and rural and semi-urban hospitals.

Director of Health Services Dilip Kumar Baliga said that the health authorities were getting themselves ready to face new types of "life-style ailments" included diabetes, blood pressure and cardiac problems affecting people.

Project director of the State Health Mission D. Thamma Rao spoke highlighting the schemes operated by the Mission.

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