Dengue source-reduction campaign conducted
Source: The Sangai Express / DIO

CCpur, October 28 2026: With the spike in Dengue cases in and around Singngat and adjoining villages, a Source Reduction T earn (SRT) comprising Dr Liangoumuan Samte, District Malaria Officer, National Centre for Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NCVBDCP) and four others with coordination of Community Health Centre, Singngat today conducted awareness (IEC/IPC), fever surveillance, source-reduction and targeted thermal fogging activities at Singngat.

An awareness campaign on Dengue Source Reduction was also organised at Singngat Model High School with the participation of Medical Officer and staff of CHC Singngat, Block Programme Management Unit, ASHA workers.

The District Malaria Officer and Medical Officer in-charge Singngat also visited dengue admitted patients and provided awareness on dengue.

The team also carried out fogging at hotspots areas in Singngat.

The SRT urged people to keep drums, tanks and other domestic water-storage containers tightly covered with lids or fine mesh to prevent mosquitoes from entering and laying eggs.

The inner walls of waterholding vessels should be scrubbed to dislodge mosquito eggs that may cling to plastic or clay surfaces.

It may be mentioned that Source Reduction Teams (SRTs) in Churachandpur had been reconstituted to support rapid responses to outbreaks of vector-borne diseases in the district, in accordance with the guidelines of the National Centre for Vector Borne Disease Control (NCVBDC) .

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