9 districts to be Malaria Free this year: Haryana Health Minister Vij

Chandigarh, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said that in the year 2019, nine districts of the state have set the goal of becoming malaria free.

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This was informed in meeting of the Malaria Working Committee held under the chairmanship of Health and Family Welfare Department Additional Chief Secretary Rajeev Arora here on Tuesday.

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Mr Arora said that Ambala, Fatehabad, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mahendragarh, Rewari and Sonepat districts will be made malaria free. For this, the department has started work at large scale to curb vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya japanese encephalitis in the state.

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