World Malaria Day 2023: Maharashtra reports 20 per cent drop in malaria cases

Atleast 17 patients of malaria are being found each day in Maharashtra each day a health department report saidIn the first three months of 2023 the state has reported 1487 malaria cases a 20 per cent drop as compared to previous year The drop was a result of various measures being taken by the state government officials saidAccording to the health department in the year 2022 the total number of patients infected with malaria remained zero in 5 districts of Latur Osmanabad Nanded Parbhani and HingoliOn April 25 the World Malaria Day is marked This years slogan is Zero Malaria Invest Innovate ImplementThe officials said that the health department will implement schemes in all rural and urban areas throughout the year The goal is to make the state malaria freeAccording to the health department in the year 2021 13367379 blood samples were tested while in 2022 a total of 16470951 blood samples were tested Despite the higher number of tests in 2022 as compared to the year 2021 there has been a decrease in the number of infected patients by 20 per centAlso Read Mumbai reports 59 new cases of Covid19 active tally at 1264Measures being taken for mosquito controlStates surveillance officer Dr Babita Kamlapur said Housetohouse spraying of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides is being done in selected and outbreakprone villages of the state Whereas under the Civil Malaria Scheme Temephos BTI insecticides are being sprayed10788 mosquito breeding sites destroyed in MumbaiUnder the malaria eradication campaign the Municipal Insecticides Department is working throughout the year to control the breeding of Anopheles stephensi the species of mosquitoes that cause malaria In the past one year the Department of Insecticides has searched and destroyed around 10788 breeding places of these mosquitoes Most of these around 2418 sites were destroyed in July 2022 the peak monsoon period in the city 2128 breeding sites were destroyed in August atleast 1496 were destroyed in June and 1337 in September the officials said10 cases of malariaWashim Sangli Beed Bhandara Ratnagiri Dhule Nandurbar Wardha Ahmednagar Kolhapur Nashik Jalgaon Solapur Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Jalan and Yavatmal are the 16 districts where malaria cases are between 1 and 10Malaria case status in Maharashtra2020 129092021 193032022 154512023 till March end 1487