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Table 1 Population, volunteers, DDCs and FTDs in high and low endemic villages

From: Impact of community-based presumptive chloroquine treatment of fever cases on malaria morbidity and mortality in a tribal area in Orissa State, India

Endemicity

No. Villages

Popn.

Anganwadi workers & centres

No. of * Village Volunteers

Total no. of DDCs

No. of FTDs

High

112

27332

26

88 (24)

114

16

Low

266

98107

104

193

297

31

Total

378

125439

130

281 (24)

411

47

  1. *The discrepancy in the numbers of villages and DDCs is because of some villages having more than one DDC, manned by Anganwadi worker and village volunteer.
  2. DDCs- Drug Distribution Centres.
  3. FTDs- Fever Treatment Depots.
  4. Figure in the parentheses indicates number of illiterate volunteers.