The health minister, while speaking at the launch of a campaign to make Gujarat malaria-free by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), said that drones should be deployed to check for mosquito breeding sites in homes. The AMC on Wednesday launched its drive under the state government's campaign to make Gujarat malaria and Dengue free by 2022.Mosquito breeding sites are often found in backyards and terraces of households, where scrap is usually kept.
Under the campaign, as many as 1,650 health workers will visit 15.40 lakh houses and other places to check for mosquito breeding sites over the next 16 days.In July 2016, the Gujarat government had declared malaria and dengue as notifiable diseases - a notifiable disease is any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities. Malaria is a public health problem in several parts of India, about 95% of the country's…
