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BSF Uses Creativity To Fight Malaria
January 22, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Tropical Disease News
Nineteen sentinels posted on Tripura-Mizoram sector have lost their lives due to malaria in the last three years.
The BSF and the CRPF jawans deployed to man the border and contain the extremist activities, fall prey to the dreadful disease. In most of the cases, the affected personnel are given treatment at local health centres.
The ailing soldiers recover, but the illness recurs.
Out of the over 8,000 BSF soldiers hit by malaria this year, eight soldiers have died.
Besides the use of mosquito repellent creams, powerful drugs, malaria detection kit and use of mosquito nets, the BSF has recently made it mandatory for all its personnel posted in the border areas to wear facemasks and gloves all the time to prevent mosquito bites.
Frequent deaths due to malaria spurred A Jayapal, former BSF commandant of the Tripura-Cachar-Mizoram (TCM) frontier, to introduce the unique 'face net' to combat 'Enemy No. 1' - malaria.
The 'face net' is made of special material and is stitched all along the edges of the soldier's helmet, or jungle hat, and reaches down to below shoulder level. At its lower end, the net is suspended by rows of iron washers to increase the weight. The washers, or small iron rings, ensure that the veil-like face net stays in place close to the body, instead of hanging free.
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