Deflating the claims of the Government to put a check on the dengue menace in the State Capital, 24 new cases of the disease surfaced here on Monday taking the figure of people affected by the disease to 854. The new cases of the disease are reported from Tegbahadur road, Mohini Road, Bhandari Bagh, Defence Colony, Tagore villa, Pithuwala, Niranjanpur, Seemadwar, Rajiv Nagar, Ajabpur, Shanti Vihar, Chukhuwala, Racecourse and Patel Nagar.
The district vector borne diseases officer, J P Bahuguna said that 271 samples of the suspected dengue patients were tested for Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) on the day out of 24 cases were found positive.
Meanwhile, the Principal Secretary Health, Om Prakash has said that an effective work plan to control the disease in state capital is being implemented with participation of District administration, Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD), health department, civil defence, Red Cross and Residential Welfare Societies (RWS).
He said teams consisting of a supervisor, civil defence, Asha worker and sanitation worker are working at ward level. Om Prakash claimed that 54018 house holds under the MCD have been sanitized so far for the disease.
The sanitization work includes earmarking utensils, tanks, ditches and other things capable of serving as potential breeding ground for the disease, decanting them if possible and putting spray over them. The services of students of SGRR medical college, NSS and NCC volunteers are also being taken in anti dengue activities.
Om Prakash said that six large fogging machines are deployed on the major roads of the city while ward-wise fogging is undertaken by hand held machines.
He claimed that 8-9 cases of dengue are surfacing now as compared to 20-22 some days earlier. The PS informed that 781 patients of the disease are now healthy.
He said that 10 beds in the isolation ward of Doon hospital are vacant while 23 patients are undergoing treatment here.