Nashik: Health department vows to get rid of malaria by 2030

NASHIK: The district health department is undertaking programmes to spread awareness about malaria and create conditions for its prevention.
NMC and the district civil hospital on Thursday organised a rally through Zilla Parishad, Ganjamal Signal and Shalimar to spread awareness about the ways by which one can prevent malaria. Health workers shouted slogans and spread information about how malaria is a mosquito borne disease that could be eliminated.
Senior officials of the health department said work is being undertaken with the aim of eliminating malaria by 2030. Thursday was observed as World Malaria Day.
Malaria awareness week is being observed till April 30, and employees who have worked towards the prevention of malaria will be felicitated in this time, alone with members of village health sanitation and nutrition committees. The bite of the Anopheles mosquito is what causes the spread of malaria. People have been asked to take care to keep surroundings clean and free of stagnant water to help prevent malaria and breeding of mosquitoes. Health officials said there were no deaths in the district of malaria since 2016.