Special drive conducted by Health Department.

Chandigarh, 7th October, 2016: A special drive was conducted today at Maulijagran jointly by Municipal Corporation and Malaria wing Chandigarh. Team was led by Dr P.S Bhatti and Dr Gaurav Aggarwal and sector 24 Chandigarh. One more team was led by Assistant Director Malaria along with State Epidemiologist at sector 24. Under this drive house to house visits were made. It was observed that major source of breeding is in house containers and coolers alongwith garbage dumps in these areas. Hygiene has not been maintained at Maulijagran for which awareness was again created during house to house visit
In the presence of prominent persons of the area, Yesterday fogging was done at Sector 18 C and D, Bapu Dham Colony, 22, 35 A&D , Vidhan Sabha, Ashadeep School sector 31, and 5 schools of Chandigarh and today will be done at Maulijagran and Sector 24 by vehicle mounted and hand held fogging machines.
Today 15 cases of Dengue has been reported from various health institutions which includes 8 new cases and 7 confirmed amongst probable cases(till the release of press note)which brings the total number of Dengue cases to 522 in the city.1 fresh cases of Chickungunya have been reported by GMCH 32 and PGIMER. The details of 76 cases of chickungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 23 imported, 22 wrong address and 31 from Chandigarh.
All residents of Chandigarh are requested that in case of any complaint related to fogging kindly send a SMS to helpline number 9779558282
To further strengthen the preventive activities, daily fumigation is being carried out alongwith strengthening of field activities which includes mass awareness, checking of breeding sources like coolers, containers, tyres and other sources.

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