The Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB) has issued the fogging schedule to control vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria.

Following the first case of dengue the District Health Department has already earmarked separate wards to handle patients suffering from the disease.

Lassa fever outbreak in the country has killed one person and infected eight others in four states.

It also affected one new healthcare worker in Kebbi State.

Former had five times more breeding spots than the latter in last four months

Some people use ant killer gammaxene and spread it in the compound and around the house.

Tafenoquine or Krintafel is used to treat p.vivax malaria.

2 more vaccines undergoing trial in the country.

Malaria cases and deaths steadily decreasing since 2013

He directed the panchayat raj and RWS officials to clean tanks where water is stored so as to avoid contamination of water.