The reputed medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an article on malaria-related deaths in India, which were estimated to be two lakh per year, and 13 times higher than the estimate of the World Health Organisation. WHO representatives contested these numbers and the methodology behind them, but conceded that their own numbers were too low.

The civic body is taking all chances to check spread of malaria. On Wednesday, it sent samples of mosquito larvicidal (ML) oil it had stopped using since almost two years for testing to Haffkine Institute in Parel. If the report suggests that the oil is effective in destroying mosquito larvae, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will shell out Rs1.62 crore to procure it.

Mumbai Three years after stopping
its use,the BMC has turned to malarial larvicidal oil again, one of many
desperate attempts to arrest mosquito breeding. It will buy the oil at Rs 1.5
crore and use it in places where water collects and stagnates.

New Delhi: Finally, it

Mumbai: A snorkel of Mumbai fire brigade, which is used to save people trapped in high-rise fires, will now save Mumbaikars from malaria.

The BMC will use snorkels to enter the compound of defunct mills to control the mosquito breeding by fogging.