Lucknow, April 5 -- Ahead of World Health Day, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday urged the people to engage children in sports for better health and highlighted the transformation of the state's health services under the BJP-led government.

In an X post, he recalled how Japanese Encephalitis was running rapid eastern Uttar Pradesh in 2017, emphasing the administration's efforts in ending the "curse".

"April 7th is World Health Day. Nine years ago, the state of health services in Uttar Pradesh was deplorable. When our government got the opportunity to serve, we put an end to the curse of Japanese Encephalitis in eastern Uttar Pradesh."

Chief Minister Yogi began his efforts to eradicate Japanese Encephalitis in the s...