Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa has directed all collectors to keep field staff fully alert to save people from seasonal diseases. Arrangements have been made in the State to send information from every village through CUJ SIM to concerning officers from district and state headquarters through IDSP. This will ensure effective disease control process.
Vector-borne and seasonal diseases start increasing generally after end of winter. On Chief Secretary’s directives, Public Health and Family Welfare Department has started implementation of an action plan for prevention of diseases in ensuing months. A special action plan will be implemented in 64 development blocks where incidence of malaria has been found high during review.
A meeting of state task force headed by Principal Secretary Health finalised scheme for disease control in malaria-prone areas. These include treatment, prevention of disease, availability of medicines, daily monitoring through control room and village-level monitoring by management units.
Rapid diagnostic kits will be used for malaria test in the state. This test gives results within 15 minutes. Patients of vivax type of malaria are given chloroquine tablets for 3 days and primaquine tables for 14 days.
Patients of falciparum malaria are administered ACT for 3 days, sulphadixen on first day and primaquine tablets on the second day. These medicines have been made available in villages in adequate quantity. Dengue spreads with arrival of monsoon and torments till arrival of winter. The disease is cause by ‘den’ type mosquitoes. last year, 2,176 cases of dengue and 59 of chikenguinia had surfaced.
Principal Secretary Health Praveer Krishna reviewed situation of disease in the state at a meeting of swine flu control coordination committee here today. The disease is being controlled rapidly due to people reaching hospitals early after being enlightened. Everyday, about one lakh people are visiting screening centres in hospitals. Of these, 95 per cent cases are of ordinary cold and cough. A 100-member medical team is constantly visiting districts and undertaking supervision of arrangements in the State.