Till late nineteen fifties India's malaria toll used to be very high. It was at that time that the Govt. of India and World Health Organisation (WHO) jointly executed the half a decade long National Malaria Eradication Project (NMEP) meticulously. By the time of completion of the project the malaria figures of India were brought down to statistical zero and the WHO declared malaria eradicated in India. It is during this & immediately following time that we find the very low numbers of malaria cases.
Once the NME Project was closed everyone slipped into complacency and relaxed comfortably. But since mosquitoe's task was assigned by God Almighty Himself, it could not afford to relax and so earnestly continued its efforts day & night. In a decades time mosquito succeeded intaking the malaria toll back to epidemic proportion. Thats what we see in 1974-76 period.
My question is: When the malaria toll started rising again, why didn't the government immediately implement the same measures they had used in the 50s? Or did they do this, but for some reason it didn't work?
Why wasn't the 1970s increase handled successfully?
In an earlier comment you said:
My question is: When the malaria toll started rising again, why didn't the government immediately implement the same measures they had used in the 50s? Or did they do this, but for some reason it didn't work?
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