Chandigarh, 22nd June: Prof Laxmi Kanta Chawla, Health & Family Welfare Minister, Punjab here today released a Manual on Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (VBDCP) for the use of Medical Officers and Para-medical staff. She was presiding over a conference of civil surgeons and state level health officers at Chandigarh. Sh A.R. Talwar, Principal Secretary, Health; Sh Satish Chandra, Mission Director, NRHM; Dr SPS Sohal, Director Health Services and Dr VS Mohi, Programme Officer were also present.
Prof Chawla lauded the initiative of department in preparing the manual. She also reviewed the district wise performance on key health programmes with the Civil Surgeons and other state level programme officers.
Sh A.R Talwar informed that the VBDCP-Manual contained in-depth and useful information regarding the various diseases covered under National Vector-borne Disease Control Programme i.e. Malaria, Dengue, Chicken-gunia, Japanese Enchaphalitis, Filaria and Kala-azar. He said that the Manual would be very useful for doctors and paramedics and help them to contain spread of such diseases. He said that all Civil Surgeons and senior officers of the health department have already been provided with the copy of the Manual, whereas the SMO's and other field level officers would be given the copy of the manual, shortly, so that they can utilize the information given therein.
Dr SPS Sohal said that during the conference, discussions on various health related issues including measures to be taken for control of dengue in the state were held. He added that the Health Department is already coordinating with other departments like Local Bodies, Water & Sanitation, and Sewerage Board etc and is completely geared up for containing dengue and water borne diseases.
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By : News Team
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