Ensure clean and hygiene surroundings: Etela tells GHMC authorities

Hyderabad: Health Minister Etela Rajender has instructed GHMC to ensure cleanliness and hygienic conditions in its limits until monsoon. He wanted the civic body officials to take steps so that residents do not have concerns on sanitation in their surroundings.

Etela held a meeting with GHMC officials at its office in Tank Bund on Wednesday and enquired about steps taken by the civic body in view of jump in fever cases across the state in August. He wanted them to continue anti-larva and fogging measures to check the mosquito menace, which is proving to be the root cause of different forms of fever being seen at present.

The Health Minister wanted GHMC to continue evening OPs in Basti Dawakhanas and Urban Health Centres for few more weeks. Earlier the minister visited Dammaiguda where he distributed Homeo medicines to school children that will increase immunity in them and prevents them from getting affected with the various fevers.