Malaria reaches epidemic levels
The mosquitoes seem to have woken up the government after taking 72 lives and spreading the malaria germ in at least 16,000 people since June. Minister of state for public health Ranjit Kamble convened a meeting with civic authorities on Thursday, asking them to go on an overdrive against malaria. The state health authorities have admitted that malaria cases have touched newer levels in Mumbai as well as Maharashtra this year. At least 5,394 people have been admitted to various civic hospitals in the city because of malaria since the beginning of monsoon.