Awareness rally on seasonal diseases organised: Collector

Kakinada: East Godavari Collector D Muralidhar Reddy flagged off a rally on seasonal diseases to create awareness among people at dairy farm centre here on Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that during rainy season seasonal diseases like malaria, dengue and viral fevers spread particularly in areas where cleanliness and sanitation lacks.

The Collector informed that the medical authorities initiated measures for control of seasonal dices by recognising black spots in the district. As part of this, programme special sanitation drive has been taken up in all municipalities, municipal corporations, panchayats in the district, the Collector said.

Mayor Sunkara Pavani who participated in the programme asked the public to keep surroundings clean and prevent breeding of mosquitoes. Deputy Mayor K Sattibabu, municipal commissioner K Ramesh and others participated.