Haryana Health Minister launches 'Malaria Free Mewat' campaign
Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Wednesday launched the 'Malaria Free Mewat' campaign under which health of about 2.60 lakh people of Mewat will be examined and treated.
The Health Minister started this campaign from his office today and said that malaria is a serious disease, which has been controlled to a great extent by our government. He said that the Central Government has set a target to make the country completely malaria-free by 2030, but our government is taking steps towards making the state malaria-free by the year 2022. As a result, the state has registered a significant decrease in malaria as compared to the year 2015.
Mr Vij said that in the year 2015, there were 9308 cases of malaria in the state, of which 6380 cases were registered only in Mewat region. He said that this figure of the state had come down to about one third, that is, 3154 in the year 2018, whereas in the Mewat region, about 1968 cases of malaria were reduced by about 64 per cent, which is a major achievement. This campaign will prove more effective in this direction and the state and Mewat will get complete freedom from malaria, he added.
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