Workshop-cum- state action plan meeting
Chandigarh, December 4, 2015:- The workshop-cum- state action plan meeting was hosted
by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, U.T, Chandigarh at Ginger Hotel,
Ind Area Phase-1, Chandigarh. Sh. Anurag Aggarwal, IAS, Home Secretary cum Health
Secretary U.T., Chandigarh inaugurated the workshop on 2
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aimed to review the participating states and to find a strategy to eliminate malaria from low
endemic states. The speakers from different states and from PGI spoke on different ways to
eliminate malaria from the region in phases. Relation on climate included variation in
temperature, rainfall, direction of wind on incidence of malaria was also discussed. The role
of private sectors for early diagnosis and prompt treatment (EDPT) of malaria cases was
advocated by Dr. Sandeep Dhawan- President IMA, Chandigarh.
The workshop concluded today with the observations that malaria can be eradicated from
India in stages with more emphasis on low endemic states (API <1) initially with better
surveillance, with more operational research and with involvement of private sectors and
medical colleges.
The state programme officers of the states i.e. Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarkhand,
Goa, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh participated in the meeting along with
their regional directors. The representatives from Directorate of NVBDCP GOI under the
guidance of Dr. G.S.Sonal, Addl Director also took part in the workshop.
