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- The Uttar Pradesh government launched massive door to door campaign ‘DASTAK’ against Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis on February 5, 2018.
- The campaign was inaugurated in Lucknow by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
- Objective: The Objective behind campaign is to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) disease in the state.
- According to the Chief Minister, state government is committed to eradicating this disease from the state and appealed everyone to fight collectively against it.
Association: The campaign was launched in association with UNICEF.
War cry: The war cry of DASTAK is ‘Darwaja khatkhatao, AES aur JE ko bhagao’. - Implementation: In DASTAK campaign, Whole state machinery with the help of UNICEF will go door to door in 38 JES and AE affected districts which mostly fall in the Tarai region of the state which contributes to about 60 percent of the total AES cases all over the country.
- In this campaign, many departments of the state especially health, rural development, primary education will work together to spread awareness about the diseases through mass media communication, provide clean drinking water, initiate sanitation drive, ensure vaccination and early treatment so that disease should be nipped in the bud.
- Children of 600 schools in the affected areas will also be part of this campaign.
