Agartala: Chief Minister Manik Sarkar assigned all his 11 Cabinet ministers to supervise malaria prevention measures in Tripura which has already taken toll of 45 lives including 33 children.
Besides, procuring emergency medicine from outside the state, a team of Union Health Ministry including the experts of National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme had visited malaria affected localities on Sunday.
The latest figure supplemented as many as 45 people including 33 children died of malaria and other vector borne diseases in past one month.
Health Minister Badal Choudhury on Monday said that 364 people were detected malaria positive in blood in past five days in the state.
The raging water borne disease malaria broke out in the hilly interiors of Gandacherra and Longtarai valley subdivisions of the Dhalai district and has spread to Khowai, Sabroom and Kanchanpur subdivisions over the week.
A three-member team of malaria experts from the Union Health Ministry led by Dr Awadesh Kumar arrived here yesterday to supervise the situation and advice the state government on how to deal with the outbreak. Soon after the arrival, the team of malaria experts — Dr Satyajit Sen and Dr Sukhbir Singh — held a meeting. (UNI)
