In a meeting conducted by health minister Suresh Shetty on November 23, a draft of Standard Operating Procedure was formulated regarding malaria control.
The state government has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to draft a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) which was followed by them to control malaria outbreak in the city. The government proposes to replicate the procedure in other municipalities and corporations in the state.
In a meeting conducted by health minister Suresh Shetty on November 23, a draft of SOPs was formulated regarding malaria control. “My office people and BMC officials are sitting together to formulate the line of action to fight vector-borne diseases. The points discussed and approved will be followed by rest of the corporations in Maharashtra to begin with,” said Shetty.
BMC-run hospitals had registered 17,000 malaria cases in July. The number has decreased to 2,395 in November.
“After the outbreak of malaria this monsoon, we decided to have SOPs to fight and control it. The SOPs included holding the builders responsible for mosquito breeding sites at their construction sites; nearly 2.5 lakh workers at construction sites were periodically checked and treated; slides were outsourced to ensure reports came in within 24 hours,” said Manisha Mhaiskar, additional municipal commissioner.
The other SOPs followed by the BMC during the malaria outbreak included bringing down the number of infected people and use of temephos to control mosquito breeding in slums. “The SOPs implemented by us ensured that the dengue cases never reached an alarming number. We are happy that the SOPs we have implemented will be a role model for rest of the state,” added Mhaiskar.
The BMC has decided to check all workers at construction sites again in December. “So far, we have been treating them on symptomatic conditions, but we will now test them irrespective of the symptoms. Also, we are following up people who had malaria. Till now, 25,000 people have been checked. This is to ensure there is no infected person and relapse cases,” said Mhaiskar.
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