Mass filaria drug dose drive from Thursday

LUCKNOW: The state health and family welfare department would be holding a mass drug administration drive from August 10 across 27 filaria endemic districts of the state.
Vector-borne diseases additional director Dr Bhanu Pratap Singh Kalyani said filaria is an often neglected tropical disease caused by the Culex mosquito. “There is no treatment of the disease and a person is left to manage its implications all his life but preventive medicine can save them from falling prey to the disease,” he said at an official briefing here on Tuesday.
He added that in Auraiya, Bahraich, Balrampur, Basti, Deoria, Etawah, Farukhabad, Ghazipur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Kannauj, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Rae Bareilly, Santakbir Nagar, Shravasti, Siddharthnagar, and Sultanpur health workers will administer two drugs, namely DEC and Albandazole, whereas in Chandauli, Fatehpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Kaushambi, Kheri, Mirzapur, Sitapur and Hardoi, they will also administer Ivermectin with the two other.A rapid response team will be available in each block to assist anyone who faces difficulties.