Malaria cases are decreasing in Tripura: Minister Sudip Roy Barman

  • | Wednesday | 1st August, 2018

In addition, 80 cases of dengue and 44 cases of chikungunya and 98 cases of Japanese encephalitis were detected in 2017, he said. AGARTALA: Tripura health minister Sudip Roy Barman said on Tuesday that cases of malaria are decreasing in the state.While addressing an event on prevention of communicable diseases at Pragna Bhawan here this afternoon, the state health minister said two people have died of malaria and one person died of Japanese encephalitis this year. "We have able to check the spread malaria ever since there was a massive outbreak in 2009 and 2014," he said,Malaria, dengue and other vector-borne diseases had reached endemic proportions in several parts of Tripura, the minister said, adding that over 5,000 malaria cases were detected in different hospitals in Tripura last year.

AGARTALA: Tripura health minister Sudip Roy Barman said on Tuesday that cases of malaria are decreasing in the state.While addressing an event on prevention of communicable diseases at Pragna Bhawan here this afternoon, the state health minister said two people have died of malaria and one person died of Japanese encephalitis this year. "We have able to check the spread malaria ever since there was a massive outbreak in 2009 and 2014," he said,Malaria, dengue and other vector-borne diseases had reached endemic proportions in several parts of Tripura, the minister said, adding that over 5,000 malaria cases were detected in different hospitals in Tripura last year. In addition, 80 cases of dengue and 44 cases of chikungunya and 98 cases of Japanese encephalitis were detected in 2017, he said.

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