Former convener of Aam Aadami Party (AAP) Anoop Nautiyal has blamed the State Government for failing to control menace of dengue in State capital. Addressing newsmen here on Thursday, Nautiyal said that the State Health Minister is directly responsible failure of the health department to control the menace of the disease in Dehradun.
He said that the patients of the dengue are facing the problem of acute shortage of platelets in the blood banks. Nautiyal said that the health minister should stop his political tours and concentrate on taking effective anti dengue measures. He said that a visit to some of the hospitals of the city indicates that the actual number of people affected by the disease is much higher than the figures the government is releasing. “ I have talked with the person conducting rituals at lakhibagh crematorium and he said that five people affected by the disease were cremated there. It shows the extent the disease has perpetuated in the city,’’ he said.
Nautiyal demanded that the state government should launch an extensive awareness campaign about the disease.
He said that the health department should undertake fogging on war fogging to control the disease.
Meanwhile the number of dengue affected people in the state capital climbed to 729 with the health department reporting 20 more cases on Thursday.