The Department of Health and Family Welfare in Mysuru is now roping in teachers who will be performing the role of a “anti-malaria nodal officer” to educate schoolchildren about the disease and its prevention in a bid to eliminate malaria fully from the district.
No indigenous case of malaria has been reported in Mysuru district since 2017. However, the department aims to continuously ensure “zero” malaria cases as it considers zero case every year is an achievement and speaks about their efforts in containing the disease.
Amidst the observance of anti-malaria month in June, the government has asked the Health Department to appoint a teacher in every school (mostly from government schools) as a nodal officer on malaria and train them so that they could spread the message through their students. A teacher in every school within the limits of a primary health centre (PHC) will be roped in and they would be recognised as Trainers of Trainees (ToTs).
