Seeing weakening health threads of Bihar, Campaign to eradicate AES to be launched in UP today

Lucknow, July 1: In order to prevent the past to repeat like Bihar, in Uttar Pradesh, a large scale campaign to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis disease will be launched today. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will kick start the campaign against communicative diseases and will also start DASTAK campaign which will run from 1st to 31st July.

 

Under this state-wide campaign teams will go door to door in every village of the 75 districts of the state to create awareness about the communicable diseases as well as JE and AES.

Mission director of National Health Mission Pankaj Kumar said that districts sensitive for the vector-borne diseases are marked.

In this massive campaign, many departments of the state especially health, rural development, primary education will work together to spread awareness about the diseases through mass media communication and will ensure availability of clean drinking water, initiate sanitation drive, ensure vaccination and early treatment so that disease should be nipped in the bud.

Similar campaign launched last year also has improved the health conditions and the government claimed that fatality rate due to AES and JE dripped.