Vardhan promises kala-azar free India by 2015
4 Sept 2014 4:04 AM IST
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that India aims to eliminate dreaded vector-borne disease kala-azar by 2015.
‘We are confident to eliminate kala-azar by 2015 with a new road map,’ Harsh Vardhan said at a function here after launching non-invasive diagnostic methods for detecting kala-azar by using oral fluid and urine samples at Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences here.
Harsh Vardhan also attended a day-long meeting on kala-azar with officials and experts from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jharkhand.
‘He deliberated on kala-azar with officials of four states, where it has turned endemic,’ an official of state health department Anand Kishore said.
Kala-azar is globally known as visceral leishmaniasis. Its carrier is the sand fly found in the eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The disease usually strikes during the monsoon months. It is the second deadliest vector-borne disease after malaria.
‘We are confident to eliminate kala-azar by 2015 with a new road map,’ Harsh Vardhan said at a function here after launching non-invasive diagnostic methods for detecting kala-azar by using oral fluid and urine samples at Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences here.
Harsh Vardhan also attended a day-long meeting on kala-azar with officials and experts from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jharkhand.
‘He deliberated on kala-azar with officials of four states, where it has turned endemic,’ an official of state health department Anand Kishore said.
Kala-azar is globally known as visceral leishmaniasis. Its carrier is the sand fly found in the eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The disease usually strikes during the monsoon months. It is the second deadliest vector-borne disease after malaria.
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