11 May,2009 04:14 PM IST | | PTI
Despite preventive measures taken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to prevent malaria cases, F-South and G-South has seen a phenomenal rise this year due to lot of construction activities in the area.
After the poll duties, the civic employees are back in action and have started fogging and other preventive measures have also been taken, but despite all these measures there is rise in malaria cases, KM Hargoli, Assistant Health Officer (Malaria) said.
Lot of construction activities are going in G-South and F-South wards, a number of cases of malaria have been reported from these civic wards, Hargoli said.
According to civic officials, maximum number of malaria cases have reported this year from this civic ward. G-South includes areas like Worli, Prabhadevi and Haji Ali among others, F-South includes areas like Parel, Seweri and Curry Road among others.
ALSO READ
Assam: 32 deaths reported due to JE, malaria in June, July
World mosquito day: Climate change and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases
5 malaria deaths in Mizoram since January
‘Chikungunya can be confused with malaria and dengue’: Mumbai doctors highlight
Mumbai sees uptick in malaria, H1N1 cases in July; drop in dengue, leptospirosis infections
In the last 10 days nearly 390 cases of malaria have been reported from across the city. Of which G-South have reported 38 and F-South have seen 61 such cases.
Last year, F-South saw nearly 44 cases in the month of April, May saw 61 and June there were 133 cases. In G-South in April there were 59 cases, May saw 125 and June 281 cases were reported.
"Based on last year's data, we were concentrating more on these areas. But this year the cases have increased as compared to last year. We are trying our best to prevent malaria," Hargoli said.
"The civic body has a special team consisting of nearly 20 to 22 people at ward levels, who visit the areas once a week and take blood samples of construction workers and if detected positive, they are treated by the civic doctors," Hargoli said.
According to the civic officials during monsoons more number of malaria cases are reported. Around 1,351 cases have been reported of malaria this April as compared to 790 cases last April.
"We have found that nearly 627 people were suffering from 'Vivax', 67 with 'Falciparum strain' and the rest from mixed malaria," he added.
