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Chandigarh, June 29- As a result of the Malaria Mukt Mewat campaign, conducted in two phases under the Malaria Control Programme to make Nuh malaria-free in Haryana, not a single case of malaria has been reported in the district during the year 2021 till June 14, 2021, which shows that district Nuh has reached the malaria free stage.
While giving this information here today, a spokesperson of the Health Department said that before the Malaria Mukt Mewat Campaign, from the year 2015 to the year 2018, malaria cases in district Nuh were more than one per thousand population (Annual Parasitic Incidence-API) i.e. in the year 2015 it was 5.07 and in 2018 it was 1.42. In addition, areas under a total of seven primary health centres were highly affected by malaria.
He said that after the implementation of this programme, the API in district Nuh was reduced to 0.68 in the year 2019 and 0.02 in the year 2020. Further, during the year 2019 only PHCs, Ujina, Sudaka and Bai had API more than one and no PHC or sub-centre had API more than one during the year 2020. Similarly, district Nuh has reported only 24 malaria cases in the year 2020 as compared to 942 cases in the year 2019 which shows a reduction of 97 percent in the malaria cases in the district. During the year 2021, no case of malaria has been reported in Nuh district till June 14 which shows that district Nuh has reached malaria free stage.
The spokesman said that in the first phase of malaria-free Mewat campaign, mass screening was done in 79 villages under four high risk primary health centres namely Ujina, Sudaka, Bai and Nuh with a target of 1.34 lakh people and in the district approx. 1.79 lakh mosquito nets were distributed. In the second phase of the campaign, with a target of 1.85 lakh people, screening was done in 62 villages under Primary Health Centre, Ujina, Sudaka and Bai. Similarly, around 71,000 people were screened under this campaign which is 38.29 percent of the total target population.
