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The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) is all set to kick start year-long programmes to combat dengue. The programmes will officially be announced on 24 February. The civic body has, this time around, focused on awareness drives, not only centrally but ward-wise, to alert people on the disease that menacingly stalked the town last year.
The civic board has also decided to develop the Geographical Information System (GIS) for investigation of dengue surveillance data through statistical analyses, while the last monthly meeting of the civic board okayed the same. According to the health department, 1,287 persons were affected by dengue last year, while four persons died.
Unofficial reports, however, said that the disease claimed around 10 lives. “We were lacking in antidengue campaigning last year, though we had taken up all necessary steps. But this year, we want to spread awareness and take steps from the beginning of the year. We have taken up year-long programmes to combat dengue.
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We will officially announce the programmes on 24 February,” Siliguri mayor Asok Bhattacharya said here on Tuesday. An awareness rally on dengue and vector-borne disease will be centrally organised the same day. Since the civic body is set to introduce drones to detect stagnant water on high-rise buildings, a trial would be conducted on the same day, Mr Bhattacharya said.
Member of mayor-in-council of education, culture, sports and information, SMC, Sankar Ghosh, said the drive to visit under-construction buildings and houses to check stagnant water will begin from March. “There will be teams, wardwise, which will monitor the stagnant water in houses. We have also decided to put up boards on abandoned houses and land. We are going for extensive campaigns before the monsoon seasons sets in,” Mr Ghosh said.
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