Thursday, August 5, 2010

A Voice on Mumbai Malaria

Being a resident of Mumbai I have dealt with many potholes and wastage disposal moving right in front of my eyes and have myself been unable to contribute to the disgusting view, I find a need to talk about Malaria, a dreadful disease that has a history of killing anyone.
We know malaria as a communicable disease that spreads rapidly. Anopheles mosquitoes are the main culprit. These mosquitoes have malarial virus in their saliva and as they suck our blood they inject the saliva into our body and the virus spreads throughout through our blood stream. In layman’s term the symptoms of Malaria are shaking chills, vomiting, nausea, etc.
These anopheles larvae breed in resting water. So here goes a word of caution, whenever you see resting water near your work place or near your house pay heed to it, do something about it. We are so busy in our day to day activities that anything not falling into our routine seems to be a difficult task to do and we more or less ignore it without considering the urgency.
On the other hand, the government has indicated that the spread of malaria reach us, the common man, through news channel and newspapers. There are Assistant Directors of Health Department areas wise in Mumbai who have been asked by the government officials to chart out their action plan and resolve them as early as possible. They are on their full duty.
I read in a newspaper that government hospitals like Lokmanya Tilak and KEM have started placing beds outside the hospital building in their premises to ameliorate the danger and meeting the ever increasing population of infected patients. There are some 40,000 blood samples to be tested, a humungous task. The officials say that there is no place inside the hospital, so tents are the only alternative they have left with them. Every one in the Government departments and the media are being kept informed to spread the awareness of such a dangerous disease for public like us. The data is regularly being transmitted to these two channels. This message is purely a word of caution for the readers to take care of themselves.
Some political parties have told that they are going to display all the potholes and the wastage disposal area remnants, exhibit them for everyone to see the dangers of this spreading disease.

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