The menace of Dengue is continuing to hit the residents of Doon valley. On Monday, 23 new cases of the dreaded vector borne disease were reported by the district health authorities.
With these cases, the number of dengue affected patients in Dehradun has jumped to 181. Out of these patients 173 patients are residents of Dehradun while eight belong to other districts.
On the day, three cases each of the disease were reported from MDDA, Dalanwala, Shanti Vihar and Vani Vihar areas.
On Monday, a team led by the Chief City health officer, Dr Kailash Joshi visited the dengue affected areas in Raipur locality of the city. Joshi warned that penalties would be imposed on those who would not be cooperating in the anti dengue activities. He gave the warning as he found that many residents in the dengue affected localities are not paying any attention to the repeated pleas of the ASHA workers on adopting anti dengue activities, like decanting the water from pots, cooler and other objects. He also directed the authorities that the all the patients suffering from fever should be examined at Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital for dengue.
The District Vector Borne Diseases Officer, Subhash Joshi said that a team of health department visited Johdi area and engaged in an awareness campaign.
In view of spurt in the number of patients, isolation wards in GDMC hospital, Gandhi Centenary Eye hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospitals have been set up.
Joshi said that the combined teams of health department and Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) are visiting the affected areas and activities like fogging and spread of insecticides are being undertaken apart from spreading awareness on preventive measures to be adopted for the disease. He said that people should ensure that the breeding places of mosquitoes inside their homes and vicinity are destroyed.
Joshi added that since Aedes mosquito, the vector of the disease bites during day time it is advisable that everyone should wear full sleeve clothes to reduce exposure of their body for the mosquito to bite.