Malaria slows down combing operations in agency areas

By SNV Sudhir/Visakhapatnam

The threatening anopheles mosquito has no reason to spare the armed police keeping guard at the agency areas. The fear of these deadly insects seems to be weighing more on their minds than mosquitoes.Earlier Health Minister, K Rosaiah while speaking to a reporter regarding this problem in agency areas remarked sarcastically that the only way of eradication of mosquitoes would be to chase and kill each mosquito individually with a stone.The mosquito, which causes malaria, must have hit the armed police in the agency areas. More than Maoists, armed police are now scared of mosquitoes in agency areas. Malaria fevers slows down combing operations in the agency areas. Now police had to catch each and every mosquito and kill it with a stone as how the health minister K Rosaiah told a reporter regarding the eradication of mosquitoes in the agency areas during his visit to these areas in the month of July.Inside sources said that the combing operations, search operations were slowed down since one and half months as these operations takes place in the remote forest areas where the government can not take any malaria eradication methods . Professionally trained commandos will take part in the search operations especially in the places where there are signs of militancy in the agency. In Visakhapatnam district 11 mandals were identified as extremists effected areas and police will regularly take part in the search operations.These days much debated topic was the malarial deaths. How ever, Rural Superintendent of Police, VV Srinivasa Rao said that the search parties will be deployed at the places where there is a threat to the civilians from extremists, unlawful assembling by Maoists etc. “ We give designated medical kits to these armed police. And these days we are providing special medicines for malaria” Srinivasa Rao said. Srinivasa Rao also said that the recent incidents like killing of two persons by Maoists, blast of a check post on Friday and another person’s murder on Saturday by the Maoists is not the effect of sluggishness in search operations but the Maoists are trying to react to the Nerrallabanda exchange of fire on August 3, Puttakota exchange of fire in the month of July and the Gunukurayi exchange of fire by which Maoists had to wind up their Guttikonda dalam.