{"id":96595,"date":"2020-03-16T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=96595"},"modified":"2020-03-16T02:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:07:13","slug":"nvbdcp-staff-urged-to-work-harder-to-eliminate-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/16\/nvbdcp-staff-urged-to-work-harder-to-eliminate-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"NVBDCP staff urged to work harder to eliminate malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Mar 15<\/strong>: Health Services Director, Dr Moromor Lego, urged the state&#8217;s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) staff to &#8220;work harder than ever in the final leg of the fight for malaria elimination.&#8221;<br \/>\nAddressing the inaugural function of a three-day meeting of the NVBDCP on malaria and other vector-borne diseases, conducted here by the health department from 11-13 March, Dr Lego said that &#8220;at such times it is very important to maintain sound health of both mind and body.&#8221;<br \/>\nNVBDCP SPO, Dr KT Mulung, highlighted the objectives of the NVBDCP and emphasized on &#8220;the goal of malaria elimination from the districts by 2022, from the state by 2025, and from the nation by 2030.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe SPO also spoke about the state and district malaria elimination task forces and rapid response teams.<br \/>\n&#8220;The task forces are to guide the state and the districts in malaria elimination,&#8221; Dr Mulung said, and informed that &#8220;the state cabinet has approved an act whereby malaria will become a notifiable disease.&#8221;<br \/>\nDr Mrigen Deka, representing the union NVBDCP directorate, spoke on &#8220;the norms of activities of the state NVBDCP, since the state has now positively moved from Category 3 to Category 1 in such a short span of time.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe informed that under the prevailing norms, the state should now target malaria elimination by 2025.<br \/>\nIDSP State Surveillance Officer, Dr L Jampa, spoke on the role of health staffers with respect to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.<br \/>\n&#8220;It emerged during the meeting that all the districts reported an annual parasite incidence of less than 1 (API&gt;1), which means that if any thousand people in the state are randomly selected, the possibility of finding a case of malaria is nil,&#8221; the state NVBDCP informed in a release, adding, however, that &#8220;the declining (ABER) is a concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Mar 15: Health Services Director, Dr Moromor Lego, urged the state&#8217;s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) staff to &#8220;work harder than ever in the final leg of the fight for malaria elimination.&#8221; Addressing the inaugural function of a three-day meeting of the NVBDCP on malaria and other vector-borne diseases, conducted here by [&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-96595","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\/96595","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=96595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}