Despite best efforts of medical health department to control it the dengue is infecting new patients and areas in the city. In view of the gravity of the situation, Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi convened a meeting of health department officials on Monday.
In the meeting Health Minister reviewed the situation of dengue in Dehradun and State. He ordered the senior health department officials to closely monitor the situation of Dengue and take urgent measures to control the spread of the disease.
Negi asked the officials of health and Municipal Corporation to work in tandem for anti-dengue drive. The health department officers apprised the Minister of the situation of dengue in capital and discussed the action plan for anti dengue drive.
The meeting was attended by Director Medical health Dr NK Gusain, State Programme Officer Dr Kiran Bisht, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun SP Agarwal, Senior City Health Officer of Municipal Corporation Dr RK Singh, District Vector Borne Diseases Officer (DVBDO) J P Bahuguna and other officers of health department.
Meanwhile the city continued to reel under the menace of dengue with the health department officials putting the number of dengue affected patients in district at 41 on Monday. Maximum number of cases are reported from Bhagat Singh Colony, Puran Basti, Sanjay colony, Brahmanwala and Dalanwala areas of the city. The health department officials are visiting every household of these colonies and intensive fogging of these areas is being done. The DVBDO Bahuguna told The Pioneer that teams of health department are ensuring that the breeding grounds of mosquito are destroyed.
These teams are decanting the water collected in pots, cans and coolers and asking people to take preventive measures. The health department teams are also checking the people at the special camps and taking blood samples of suspected people. Bahuguna said that since the mosquito of dengue bites in day time people should wear full sleeved cloths and shocks to prevent the mosquito bites.
While talking to The Pioneer the State Programe Officer Dr Kiran Bisht accepted that urgent steps are needed to check the spread of disease. She said that cooperation between the social organizations, common people and government department is needed to destroy the larvae of Tiger mosquito which spreads dengue.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito due to the characteristic strips over its body. The presence of this virus is detected by conducting the Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) test which is the confirmatory test for the disease. The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number in blood decrease drastically which may prove fatal for the patient.