Malkangiri, Nov 14: 108 is now the total number of children who are dead due to Japanese Encephalitis in Malkangiri. The death toll increased when three more children named Ramesh Bisoi of Kataguda village under Padia block, and Muna Sodhi and Radhika Madakami of Korukonda blosk died on Monday at the district headquarters hospital while undergoing treatment.
It’s stated that the District Administration will conduct a door-to-door survey for three days starting from Nov 20 to prevent the spread of the disease. Also children between the age of 1 and 15 will be provided with vaccination from December first week. All these initiatives were decided at a meeting held yesterday under the chairmanship of District Collector.
Meanwhile, to review the situation, a five member BJP team, consisting of Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Petroleum Minister accompanied by Basant Panda, BJP State President and KV Singhdeo and Bhrugu Baxipatra, party leaders, visited Malkangiri today morning. But to a surprise no police official agreed to provide any sort of security to the Union Minister at the time of his visit. Hence, while visiting Polkonda village, the party leaders wore bullet-proof jackets accompanied by BSF officials.
As per the sources, the team will visit Dariguda and Kalkunda villages which has been affected the most by Japanese Encephalitis and later the team will visit to the district headquarters hospital, Malkangiri and discuss the matter with the health officials there.
After the visit, the team will submit a report to the Centre as soon as possible so that a solution can be reached as to how to resolve the issue, as informed by the State President.
