As part of their contingency measures to take on the water and vector borne diseases in the region, the Nainital district administration seem to have no other option but to issue order or conduct inspection of the hospitals occasionally.
District Magistrate Nainital Akshat Gupta issued a similar order to the health officials concerned only after the death of a child due to diarrhoea in Nainital’s Okhalkanda block’s Aghora village earlier this month. Now after this incident, he visited the Haldwani base hospital on Monday following increasing cases of water and vector borne diseases of late and issued order to the health officials concerned of the said base hospital to take care of the patients.
Now he also asked the health a officials concerned of the Haldwani base hospital to ensure deployment of doctors in sufficient number in the hospital round the clock so that patients could get due attention. More so, similar instructions have also been issued by State Finance Minister and MlA from Haldwani assembly constituency Indira Hridayesh directing the health officials concerned to bring the diseases under control and provide necessary medicines and treatment to the needy free of cost.
At the same time she has also asked the officials concerned of the municipal corporation of Haldwani to launch a special sanitation drive in the city to maintain cleanliness across the city. Besides, the MlA from Haldwani Hridayesh has also directed the officials concerned of the civic department to ban sale of cut and stale fruits and other edible items in the market places.
In view of the increasing cases of water and vector borne diseases in different parts of the region, the health experts have also urged the citizens not to eat stale food and cut fruits in the open market places during the summer season.