Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and City Health Society on Tuesday organized a training programme for grassroots workers with emphasis on eradication of dengue in the city.
The training programme chaired by Mayor Sulochana Das was attended by BMC Commissioner Rajesh Prabhakar Patil, Chairman Standing Committee (Health and Sanitation) Birchi Narayan Mahasupkar and Chairman Standing Committee (Works) Amaresh Jena, Additional Commissioner Ghashiram Murmu, Deputy Commissioner (Sanitation) Dr Manoranjan Sahu, Urban Public Health Officer Dr Neelmani Senapati and BMC Divisional Officer (North) Shashibhushan Mohapatra and South East Officer Rajalakshmi Naik.
The camp was organized to sensitize the citizens as well as to make them adopt preventive measures against dengue. About 800 workers have been mobilized to ensure that the message reaches every home of Bhubaneswar and people follow the measures for the prevention of dengue. A community connect strategy has been prepared for Anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, and Swachhasathis in each ward of Bhubaneswar.
The city has been divided into 13000 lanes comprising of different areas.
The BMC will use the Safa app to conduct surveillance surveys at vulnerable homes. Grassroots workers will conduct the survey in four phases. Each worker will survey 350 to 400 households. They will look around the house, inside the house, above the house etc.
They will look for stagnant water /containers, tyres, etc. and destroy any mosquito larvae that may be present. Each worker will survey 350 to 400 houses in four phases in the said community connect programme which will commence on the 18th of this month.
Mayor Sulochana Das emphasized on breaking the mosquito breeding cycle at the training programme.
Commissioner Rajesh Prabhakar Patil urged all to eradicate dengue from Bhubaneswar and turn it into a mass movement by involving the citizens.
The workers will visit from house to house with the special leaflet prepared by the City Health Society and collect information of the family in the bottom part.
About 600 participants including Community Organizers, Health Workers, Ward Officers, and Sanitary Inspectors participated in two special training programmes of North and South East Zones today.
