Bareilly: Expressing concern over the health of 2,900 inmates lodged at Bareilly district jail amid growing cases of fever deaths, especially due to malarial fevers, senior superintendent of district jail RK Mishra on Wednesday sought spraying larvicides and fogging of all barracks.In letters to district magistrate VK Singh and chief medical officer Dr Vineet Shukla, Mishra said, “Mosquitos are breeding very fast here, thus there is a need to spray larvicides and fogging of all barracks.”“As the jail is located in rural area, 20 km from the city and the entire district is affected by malarial fever, the chances of outbreak on the jail premises are high. Thus, we have demanded fogging and anti-larval spraying of the jail premises,” he said.According to jail officials, the district jail has a capacity of 3,500 prisoners, but there are as many as 2,900 inmates lodged here, at present. “We have little resources at hand to fight mosquito breeding on and around the jail premises, which is in rural area.”Mishra said they were providing generic mosquito repellent lotion to the prisoners for their protection. “We don’t have branded mosquito repellent lotion for the inmates. We provide them what we receive from the government.”Talking about medical facilities at the jail, he said: “We have two doctors at the jail hospital. They attend 20 to 25 patients every day. Besides, we have sufficient medicines. The jail hospital has also facility to admit inmates, if required.”Responding to the jail superintendent’s demand, chief medical officer Dr Ranjan Gautam said, “We will ask the district malaria officer and the municipal corporation to start fogging the district jail premises.”

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