Teams comprising Kudumbasree workers, health volunteers, ASHA workers, and Corporation employees will conduct house visits in the city on Sunday as part of fever prevention activities.
A micro plan was drawn for conducting the house visits on the lines of the Pulse Polio drive at a meeting presided over by Mayor V.K. Prasanth here on Tuesday.
Each team will cover 50 houses. The aim is to cover all houses in the Corporation limits on a single day. Arrangements for Sunday’s house visits will be done in the coming days.
Corporation Health standing committee chairperson K. Sreekumar and Kudumbasree Executive Director S. Harikishore were present on the occasion.
Fogging and spraying
Earlier at a press conference, the Mayor claimed that volunteers had visited 85% of the houses in the Corporation limits in the past few weeks for source reduction of mosquitoes. Fogging and spraying were being taken up regularly. As many as 300 workers had been specially appointed by a government order for supporting the Corporation’s activities.
House visits at weekends for fever prevention under the leadership of ward councillors would continue, he said.
The Corporation, he said, had sought the government’s nod for deploying five doctors and 10 nurses in a mobile clinic to reduce the case load in hospitals. Distribution of preventive medicines by squads conducting house visits was on.
The Mayor stressed that proper reporting of activities undertaken was being done. Special focus was being given to wards where such activity was lagging with the support of nursing hospital staff, residents’ associations, and NSS volunteers. The squads would be deployed in the Thirumala area at weekends. Health workers had also been specially deployed there, he said.
A letter had been sent to the Chief Secretary, requesting the cooperation of all institution and department heads, the Mayor said.
Despite the absence of a plant, waste management was being done using the services of the Corporation staff to the extent possible. As many as 185 dump sites had been cleared. Steps were being planned to clear the waste even at Erumakuzhy, he said.
Any opposition at this stage would prove to be a setback for fever prevention activities, the Mayor said.