Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Faggan Singh Kulaste on Saturday said the State Government has failed to contain the dengue outbreak. Kulaste, who was in Puri to pay obeisance to lord Jagannath, assured support from the Union Government to tackle the situation.
“This is a State subject. The State Government should have taken precautionary measures to avoid such an outbreak. It has failed to check spread of the disease,” said Kulaste.
He said a Central team would soon come to the State to take stock of the situation and, on its report, the Union Government would provide all possible assistance. The Minister said he would discuss the situation with top officials of the State Government.
The dengue situation in the state continues to worsen in Keonjhar and Barbil. Out of the 2,229 samples tested in Barbil, 723 have been identified positive. In Cuttack, 213 blood samples have been tested positive. later in the day, he visited dengue patients in the special ward at SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.
He too attended the fourth foundation day of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. Speaking here, he said the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar would be full-fledged by 2017.