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Sion hospital doctors to launch project to fight malaria

After malaria caused havoc in 2010, Sion hospital doctors predict a worse situation in 2011.

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After malaria caused havoc in 2010, Sion hospital doctors predict a worse situation in 2011.

To combat it, the hospital is launching a pilot project in a month, in Bandra. There will be a dedicated number on which people can register their address and number if they have fever, and the authorities will visit their homes and take their blood samples.

The project will concentrate on a population of 1 lakh in Bandra (East). Centre for study of social change, a Bandra-based NGO, will be helping the hospital with this project.

Dr Ramesh Chaturvedi, head, preventive and social medicine department, Sion hospital said, “We have been studying the pattern of diseases such as malaria, dengue since the last few years and have seen a rise in cases every year.”

The hospital registered 17,000 malaria cases in the city in July. The number reduced to 2,395 in November.

“Whenever there is a surge in number of cases of any disease, we take ad hoc decisions to bring the number under control. We did the same for malaria. But with this project, we are looking for a permanent solution to the problem,” added Chaturvedi.

The hospital also plans to digitised the health records of this population that will help them map disease patterns and causative factors.

Chaturvedi said, “We can’t make Mumbai mosquito-free but we can take steps that will bring down diseases spread by them.”

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