Mangalore: The Mangalore City Corporation launched a three-day malaria controlling drive on Monday September 15, considering the rise in number of malaria cases in the city.

During the drive all the construction sites in the city limits will be inspected, area is will be identified and measures will be taken to destroy the mosquito breeding sites. As many as 11 teams comprising of 71 officials from health, town planning, engineering and revenue departments have been formed to do so. The teams will be monitored by assistant executive engineers and assistant town planning officers.

Before launching of the drive, MCC in-Charge Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak said, “Each team has been entrusted with the responsibility of visiting 20-30 construction sites in five to seven wards during the three days drive. The teams will visit over 250 construction sites, inspect the building and its premises, identify mosquito breeding sites and take steps to destroy the breeding.”

Adding to the details he said that multi-purpose workers in the teams will take up blood test of the construction workers who are suffering from fever on the spot. The teams are provided with medical kits with medicines like primaquine, chlorofin and rapid diagnostic test kits. Notice will be issued to the builder who has failed to initiate measures to control malaria and the teams have been instructed to submit a report about such builders to the Commissioner.

Launching the drive, Mayor Mahabla Marla instructed the officials to take strict action against the builders who fail to prevent mosquito breeding in the sites.
The teams can inform me or the commissioner if at all any builder or in-charge person in the construction site gives a negligent or blunt reply, he said.