With the last of the malaria kits and cell phone SIM cards handed over to Auxiliary Nurse and Midwives (ANM) and Male Health Assistants at Indervelli Primary Health Centre (PHC), the special measures to prevent epidemic outbreak in tribal areas of Adilabad district was totally in place on Saturday.
Additional District Medical and Health Officer T. Prabhakar handed over the kits to field staff and explained to them the salient features of field-level treatment procedure of malaria.
The malarial kit which has ample medicine to treat malaria helps the ANMs diagnose the disease at the house of the suspected patient. “The ANM concerned will hand over medicines for three days to the patients diagnosed of falciparum malaria so that the poor tribals are saved of the trouble of reaching the PHCs or other hospitals,” the Additional DHMO pointed out.
The cell phone SIM cards as part of a closed user group (CUG) were given to the ANMs so that they can keep in touch with their counterparts from neighbouring PHCs.
“It will help them in identifying patients of respective PHCs so that proper attention is given," he added.
Mr. Reddy told The Hindu on Saturday that the Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Utnoor, had launched the disease control measures even before the start of monsoon season. The drive was designed by ITDA Project Officer R.V. Karnan to take treatment at the door steps of poor Adivasis and other tribal people in the far flung villages.
The drive is a joint operation of Medical and Health, Rural Water Supply and Panchayat Raj departments. Every mandal has been allocated a vehicle for transport of 10 sanitation workers.
These workers have identified water stagnation areas in their respective places of operation. They continue to undertake bleaching of the stagnant water.
