Statesman News Service
MALDA, Oct 12: Malda district health officials have decided to conduct blood tests on migrant labourers who have recently returned from different states after two malignant malaria cases were detected.
According to chief medical officer (health), Dr Radha Raman Banik, two migrant labourers have been identified in Manikchak and Habibpur respectively as suffering from malignant malaria. They are undergoing treatment in respective hospitals.
“We are planning to spray DDT in the area around their houses and will conduct blood tests of migrant labourers suffering from fever across the district,” said Dr Banik.
In Malda, thousands of people go to other states as wage earners and many of them may return home as carriers of malignant malaria.
District health officials said the number of fever cases among the migrant labourers was abnormally high and Orissa was singled out as the state most prone to malignant malaria.
Labourers did not get sufficient medical facilities in some states like Orissa and finally returned to the district as carriers of malignant malaria and other diseases including HIV/AIDS, according to officials.
"I wrote a letter to the state health officials last month informing them about the plight of migrant labourers of Malda district and requested them to ask the Orissa government to regularly monitor the health condition of those who migrate to other states for livelihood,” said Dr Banik.
“I don't know whether our state officials have taken the matter up with the Orissa government or not,” he added.
No comments:
Post a Comment