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Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram
By Our Staff Reporter
While five patients, including four girls, from Kannanmoola, Vembayam, Manamboor, Kallara and Povatthur, were admitted to the SAT Hospital, two adult patients from the Palode and Amboori areas were hospitalised at the Medical College Hospital (MCH). As part of the Health Department's preventive campaign against vector-borne diseases, children at the Naduveli Government School in Vembayam, undertook a pledge to contribute to personal and environmental cleanliness at their school and home to ward off infectious diseases. The District Collector, E. Ayyappan, the district panchayat president, Sasikala Sivasankar, the District Medical Officer, E. K. Madhavan, and the panchayat member, Anil Kumar, were among those present. Similar pledges will be administered at school assemblies at all educational institutions in the district. Health promotion teams have been constituted at ward-levels to carry out vector control measures primarily by focusing on cutting off breeding sites for the mosquitoes by maintaining environmental hygiene. Besides respective ward members, the involvement of junior public health nurses and `ayalkoottams' would be enlisted for the sustained campaign. Each team has been assigned to visit 250 houses. Later, the Collector chaired a meeting of panchayat officials to review the dengue threat in the district and to decide on further course of action. A special meeting of grama panchayat heads is scheduled for the second week of July to review the effects of the measures taken so far and to strengthen preventive measures.
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