Awareness is instrument to eradicate AIDS: CM
Our Bureau
AGARTALA, December 01 2020: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb underscored need for sustained awareness campaign to eradicate AIDS from the state. He advised Tripura State AIDS Control Society to initiate a month long campaign and organise relevant programmes across the state.
Chief Minister was speaking at a programme on occasion of World AIDS Day Tuesday. He felt need for involvement of students, NGOs, Self Help Groups and the NSS in the awareness campaign which will usher benefit to free Tripura from the health menace.
He cautioned that the government alone cannot do everything and needs cooperation from all sections of society. Citing improvement in Covid situation, Biplab Kumar Deb said the spread could be checked in the state as people responded to the nagtionwide awareness campaign under stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
State has now achieved 97.15 percent recovery rate which itself shows the improvement, Chief Minister said adding that there has not been a single Covid-19 related death in past seven days.