{"id":20252,"date":"2018-02-20T03:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=20252"},"modified":"2018-02-20T03:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:47:49","slug":"anjaw-on-brink-of-malaria-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/anjaw-on-brink-of-malaria-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjaw on brink of malaria elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HAWAI, Feb 19:<\/strong> Anjaw is on the brink of eliminating malaria as the district has recorded a drastic reduction in incidences of the disease in the last five years, said District Vector Borne Disease Control Programme Officer Dr S Tayang.<br \/>\n&#8220;Anjaw would probably be the first district to be declared a malaria free zone in the state, if we go by the disease trend, which has drastically reduced in the past five years,&#8221; said Dr Tayang before the start of a short marathon race here on 19 February.<br \/>\nThe mini marathon, themed &#8216;Run for health&#8217; and &#8216;Say no to malaria&#8217;, was organized as part of the Statehood Day celebration, and to create health awareness among the public here.<br \/>\nThe short-distance race, which started at the Kalikho Pul Memorial District Hospital premises, was flagged off by Hayuliang ADC K Jillen, in the presence of DMO Dr K Perme.<br \/>\nPeople from all walks of life participated in the race.<br \/>\nAnita Tabi (37:41 mins) and Totitso Manyu (28:30 mins) won the race in the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s category respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAWAI, Feb 19: Anjaw is on the brink of eliminating malaria as the district has recorded a drastic reduction in incidences of the disease in the last five years, said District Vector Borne Disease Control Programme Officer Dr S Tayang. &#8220;Anjaw would probably be the first district to be declared a malaria free zone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}