‘Need prevention programmes against chronic diseases’

January 29, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:44 am IST - Thrissur

Babu M. Pallissery, MLA, addressing a workshop at KILA, Mulangunnathukavu, on Wednesday. — Photo: By special arrangement

Babu M. Pallissery, MLA, addressing a workshop at KILA, Mulangunnathukavu, on Wednesday. — Photo: By special arrangement

: The state needs adequate preventive programmes to check increasing number of chronic diseases, Babu M. Pallissery, MLA, has said.

He was addressing the workshop on comprehensive development project for Kunnamkulam Assembly constituency organised by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration at Mulangunnathukavu, near here on Wednesday.

“About 80 per cent of people who are booking tickets from Guruvayur to Thiruvananthapuram are going to Regional Cancer Centre. The number of renal diseases is also increasing regularly. The use of vegetables contaminated by deadly pesticides is one of the reasons.”

Mr. Pallissery said we should be able to address the issue by organic farming of vegetables.

We need effective measures to address the waste management problem and drinking water shortage, he noted.

Kunnamkulam Municipality Chairman V.K. Unnikrishnan, block pranchayat presidents from Wadakkanchery, Chovvannur, panchayat presidents from Kadavallur, Porkkulam, Chovvannur, Erumappetty, Velur and Kattakambal, Standing Committee Chairpersons, and officials from various local bodies participated in the meeting.

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