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Hundreds of postmen in India's Jharkhand state are delivering anti-malaria medicine along with letters to combat a spike in malarial deaths in the east part of the country, a senior official said on Friday.
"The postmen travels everyday to otherwise inaccessible territories and knows almost everybody and they seem to be our best bet to beat malaria," Shivendu, the health secretary of Jharkhand, who uses one name, told Reuters.
"We have trained them to carry bottles of chloroquine and other medicines like pills and distribute them to hundreds of villagers and report back to us," he said by telephone from Ranchi, Jharkhand's capital.
The postmen will not only give medicines to people suffering from fever but also monitor health in remote malaria-affected areas by filling up questionnaires during mail runs.
Every year, malaria affects thousands in eastern India where water-logged paddy fields are breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
In the first six months this year, malaria killed more than 150 people in Jharkhand and the neighboring state of West Bengal, according to official data, and has affected 20,000 people in the two states.
So far this year, malaria has struck 50 to 90 percent more people in the two states compared to last year, officials said, pinpointing a new strain as the main cause.
Shivendu said the official figures understated the real numbers as many malarial cases and deaths go unreported in remote areas but he expected postmen to give a more realistic picture.
Jharkhand's anti-malaria drive is gaining attention.
"The Jharkhand government's ways are indeed novel and can be adopted by other states for good results," said Prabhakar Chatterjee, a senior World Health Organization official.
