Under massive awareness campaign in Bhilai-Durg dengue affected and other areas, around 35 teams of two private medical college students based in Bhilai are conducting door to door campaign, making the residents aware of the symptoms, prevention methods and early treatment.
Meanwhile, health department, Government of Chhattisgarh has made measures to control the further spread of dengue in Bhilai-Durg area including other suspected cases.
It is reported that few of the patients have shifted themselves to Raipur for treatment.
Commissioner Health, R Prasanna said that in all the private nursing homes and private hospitals, through smart health card the patients of dengue are being provided free of cost treatment.
In case if any patient is not have smart card, then also they are being treated free of cost. The payment would be made through ‘Sanjeevani Kosh’.
On Saturday screening, 53 cases of suspected dengue were found while team took 5024 door to door samples.
They checked water of water tanks and around 4000 coolers. Around 1865 cooler and water tanks were emptied. 404 blood samples were sent to Raipur Medical College for testing out of which 282 positive cases were found.
The teams also distributed pamphlets. On Sunday, no cases of death have been reported said health department officials. Till date around 77 patients have been discharged and 35 more patients on recovery have been discharged on Sunday. In Durg district, 36,000 houses team have visited. Durg district hospital has around 110 units of whole blood and 32 platelets unit are available. Mass media is being used for spreading the message among public.
Health department intimated that in state from January 1, 2018 to August 10, 2018 total 314 cases were recorded. Raipur had 10, Durg 282, Rajnandgaon 3, Bilaspur 9, Mahasamund, Surajpur, Bemetara all 2 each, one each at Raigarh, Kawardha, Koriya and Balod and in Bastar, Dantewada, Sukma, Kondagaon, Bijapur, Kanker, Narayanpur, Baloda Bazar, Dhamtari, Gariyaband, Janjgir, Korba, Mungeli, Balrampur, Jashpur and Sarguja, no cases of dengue has been reported yet.