The Hindu : Serve in rural areas to help contain diseases, doctors told

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Sunday, Sep 22, 2002

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Serve in rural areas to help contain diseases, doctors told

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry Sept. 21. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today called upon the government officials and doctors to make their services available in rural areas.

Inaugurating a two-day third national conference on leptospirosis organised by the Indian Leptospirosis Society at the JIPMER here today, he said people should be educated on the importance of hygiene for a healthy living. The outbreak of diseases could be contained if the doctors served in the rural areas.

He stressed the need for providing protected drinking water to the people and protecting environment.

He hoped that the conference would come out with useful suggestions to ensure healthy living conditions for the people, especially the poor.

The Society president, S.C. Sehgal, said leptospirosis was one of the occupational and environment-related diseases and involved multi-organ syndrome. The disease projected a heterogeneous dimension in the clinical aspect. He sought the cooperation of the media in creating awareness on the transmission of disease. Calling upon the media to elicit the views of experts on the ways to curb the disease, he said the deliberations in such conferences should reach the common man. There should be proper upkeep of the environment as this was chiefly responsible for the spread of the disease. M. Rajasekhar, Secretary, presented a report on the Society's activities. The JIPMER Director, R. Sambasiva Rao, who is vice-president of the Society, was among those felicitated.

The Chief Minister released a souvenir and Mr. Sehgal received the first copy.

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