Chandigarh, Sep 16
With fever, diarrhoea and skin infections on the rise in flood-affected districts, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday directed the Health and Family Welfare Department to intensify efforts for giving relief to the people in terms of diagnosis and treatment.
Mann said so far, around 1.50 lakh people have benefited from the health camps where cases of fever, diarrhoea, skin infections and others are coming in huge numbers.
By September 20, every household will be covered.
He said a 21-day fumigation and vector control drive has been started with an aim to cover all villages across the state. Mann said door-to-door inspections for checking mosquito breeding are being done, and immediate larvicidal spraying wherever breeding is detected is being carried out along with daily village-wide fumigation.