India, Oct. 2 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has trained more 300 ASHA workers to intensify malaria surveillance in the city, said the officials.

The civic health department distributed slide kits to the volunteers on Wednesday. The programme was chaired by Dr Nina Borade, health chief, PMC.

Earlier, PMC had trained 200 ASHA workers in August and distributed slide kits to them.

These kits will aid in testing samples from suspected malaria patients in the community as part of surveillance. Besides, it will help faster detection and treatment of malaria cases and strengthen frontline response and help curb the spread of the disease, they said.

Dr Rajesh Dighe, assistant health officer of PMC, said, given the rapid urbanisation,...