Municipal Commissioner M. Hari Narayanan interacting with residents at Chinnuru at Akkayyapalem on the opening day of door-to-door surveillance to end mosquito menace on Saturday in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: Arranged pic more-in The door-to-door surveillance by the GVMC to effectively counter mosquito menace in the city covering all the houses began on Saturday. The campaign is aimed at surveillance and 100 % sanitation destroying breeding and educating people. As a part of it, Municipal Commissioner M. Hari Narayanan visited Akkayyapalem and Sankuvanipalem in Ward No. 12 and saw water stored in houses, rooftops, water tanks and sumps. Mr. Hari Narayanan said the Public Health and Malaria staff should equip ‘Sadhikara mitras,’ with the necessary information on combating the mosquito menace. He also visited houses of patients affected by dengue at Ramachandranagar in Ward Nos. 32 and 68 in Zone VI. In the two-day drive, 5.8 lakh houses are being targeted with their being covered by ‘Sadkikara mitras,’ ASHA workers, NGOs and self-help group members. The first criteria is to achieve 100% sanitation, destroy all larvae breeding points and identify all fever cases. “Once all the details of patients are available, ASHA workers will go and check the treatment being taken by them. If it is not from a qualified doctor or medication buying drugs across the counter etc. proper treatment will be ensured,” says GVMC Chief Medical Officer (Health) A. Hemanth. An official release said a total of 3.01 lakh households were covered by 5,119 persons on the first day of house-to-house surveillance against mosquitoes. ‘More beds in KGH’ District Collector Pravin Kumar visited Kallupakalu area in Ward No. 26 on the first day of the drive. He interacted with residents and saw whether stickers were stuck at the houses covered under the surveillance campaign. He told residents not to get panicky if the platelet count was reduced and presume that the fever was dengue and get treated at the nearest Chief Minister’s Health Centre. He said more beds would be made available at the KGH soon to offer better treatment to patients.

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