Kangpokpi's Additional DC inaugurates anti-Malaria month
Source: The Sangai Express
Kangpokpi, August 25 2014:
Additional DC Kangpokpi, DK Thangboi inaugurated Anti-Malaria Month today at Sadar Hills at District Council Hall, Kangpokpi.
The Anti Malaria Month, is observed every year in the country prior to the onset of monsoon and transmission session.
DK Thangboi, Addl.
DC Kangpokpi, Dr Jangkholun Touthang, Sr Medical Officer i/c, CHC, Kangpokpi and Haokholun Chongloi, Kangpokpi Town Committee secretary graced the event as Chief Guest, President and Guest of Honour respectively.
Dr Len Kamkhosat Khongsai, District Malaria Officer, Kangpokpi and other department officers also attend the inaugural function apart from leaders of CSOs, ASHAs.
Large number of students and the public also attended the event.
Speaking as the chief guest of the event DK.
Thangboi said, "We don't need to depend on others when we have enough skilled and proficient doctors in the state." Elucidating his statement, he said, most of the people, particularly those living in hill districts, consult doctors or visit hospital only when a patient is in deteriorating condition which renders the doctors limited time to cure the patient.
another bad habit of the people, he continued, is the intake of medicine without medical prescription.
Guest of Honour Haokholun Chongloi in his speech lauded the event organisers addressing the function as a privilege for the Sardar hill district people.
Dr Len Kamkhosat Khongsai maintained that people though knowledgeable about Malaria often do not realize the disease's grip on the country.
It is the aim of the District Vector Borne Disease Control Society, Kangpokpi to promote awareness about the disease and encouraged community participation in the attempts to control the disease.
He also recommended clean surroundings, use of mosquito net and disposal of stagnant water to prevent the disease from spreading.
ASHA has been holding training programmes which proposed to make testing and treatment available at village level.
Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) of DDT, Insecticide treatment of community owned bed-nets and LLIN nets provided by the NHRM, Senapati district has also been distributed in the disease prone areas as part of the control measure.
The District Vector Borne Disease Control Society, Kangpokpi would also conduct District Level Inter-Sectoral Sanitization Meeting with different departments in the district as part of their initiative with awareness programmes for schools and communities to follow.