AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): With the deadly disease- malaria spreading in newer areas, the North and Dhalai district administrations have decided to press chopper into service to tackle the situation in far-flung areas, official sources confirmed today. Keeping in mind of prevailing situation in some tribal hamlets, the district administration has decided to send special medical team to some ‘vulnerable’ hamlets, said DM, North Sanjiv K Rathod over telephone from Dharmanagar today.

He said CMO, Dhalai Dr. Sanjoy Biswas has been asked to coordinate the entire plan of organizing medical camp in the malaria ravaged areas including Sakhan Shermoon area in Kanchanpur subdivision.

The DM said, “The situation is under control with doctors and health workers organizing health camps in the malaria affected areas”. The special medical team who will come from Agartala, is supposed to conduct special medical camps for four consecutive days starting tomorrow.

Besides North district, the special medical team would conduct medical camp in some remote pockets of Dhalai district to contain the malaria. And they would be sent to there by helicopter. Among eight districts Dhalai is the worst malaria affected district so far. Blood samples of 9136 patients were examined yesterday out of which 1435 patients tested positive cases. Today, a total of 672 malaria patients have got admitted in government hospitals, according to official figure.

Medicines Suns Frotiners , an internal NGO has extended help to contain malaria which has already claimed 60 precious lives.  As part of precautionary measures, the government has asked all the doctors and medical staff to strictly follow treatment protocol while treating malaria patients.