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West Bengal Plans Coordinated Strategy to Combat Dengue Crisis
West Bengal is dealing with a serious dengue problem.
Dengue is spread by mosquitoes.
A meeting led by Suvendu Adhikari is planned for 5 p.m.
at Swasthya Bhavan.
Several government departments will discuss how to work together.
City officials from 21 urban local bodies will also join the meeting.
Officials want to increase cleanliness drives in both cities and villages.
The health department will lead the effort under the Chief Minister’s Office.
Changing weather and rain have increased concern because dengue cases and deaths have risen in some districts.
Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled to chair a 5 p.m. meeting at Swasthya Bhavan to address West Bengal’s dengue crisis.
Ministers and senior officials from health, public works, rural development, urban development and irrigation departments will attend.
Officials from 21 urban civic bodies have also been asked to participate in planning a coordinated response.
Cleanliness drives are being intensified in Kolkata and surrounding urban areas, with rural departments expected to expand similar efforts.
Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad have been identified as the state’s most dengue-prone areas.
- Who
- Suvendu Adhikari, state ministers, senior bureaucrats and representatives of 21 urban civic bodies.
- What
- A meeting to create a coordinated strategy for combating West Bengal’s dengue crisis.
- Where
- Swasthya Bhavan in Salt Lake, on Kolkata’s northern outskirts.
- When
- The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. today.
- Why
- Dengue cases and related deaths have increased in some districts amid unpredictable weather and rainfall.
Key facts
- Meeting chair
- Suvendu Adhikari
- Meeting time
- 5 p.m.
- Meeting location
- Swasthya Bhavan, Salt Lake
- Lead department
- West Bengal Health Department
- Participating departments
- Health, public works, panchayat affairs and rural development, municipal affairs and urban development, and irrigation
- Urban participants
- Nodal officers from 21 urban civic bodies
- Dengue-prone areas
- Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad
Quotes
Senior officer from the West Bengal state secretariat
State secretariat official describing the rationale for interdepartmental coordination.
“The Chief Minister is of the opinion that although the primary task of combatting the crisis is of the state health department, the said department alone might not be able to combat the current crisis unless it works in coordination with the other four departments.”
thehansindia.com
“Now it has been decided that the state irrigation and panchayat affairs and rural development departments will be involved actively to undertake the same cleanliness drive in the rural areas.”
thehansindia.com
Sources
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