The officials of the Integrated Tribal Development
Agency (ITDA), Utnoor claimed that they have controlled the malaria positive
cases and its related deaths using ‘Artemisinin’ medicine (ACT combipack) this year in the
Adilabad district of Telangana.
China’s scientist Tu Youyou got Noble prize in
medicine category for developing the medicine Artemisinin for the year 2015.
Artemisinin has been proved to be doing well
medicine in controlling malaria across the world and Tu Youyou has developed
the medicine from the traditional Chinese medicine.
Project officer of ITDA, Utnoor R.V Karnan said they
have used the Artemisinin medicine to control the malaria cases in the Agency
areas and treated 5,985 malaria positive cases in this year in the district and
that they have procured nearly 22,000 ACT kits to treat
patients.
He said many lives have been saved by administering ACT medicine in the Agency in the district this season. However, 18 people
succumbed to malaria this year.
Karnan said the number of deaths were considerably low
in ratio of detected positive malaria cases in this year when compared to malaria
positive cases and deaths in previous years.
According to official sources, the ITDA, Utnoor has
procured only 7,000 ACT kits till 2014 from 2008 from the directorate
of medical and health but nearly 22,000 ACT kits were procured from
various sources in 2015 to control the malaria cases with special efforts made
by project officer of ITDA.
However, according to unofficial sources the actual
number of malaria positive cases and deaths is much more than the official
figures this year like in the past.
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