'Fight dengue menace with team spirit'

Prevention from mosquitoes is the cure of dengue as there is no specific medicine developed to date against it. The Minister of medical health and family welfare Surendra Singh Negi said this while chairing a meeting on the disease in the Vidhan Sabha auditorium on Monday. He advised all the officers to work with team spirit to fight the menace of dengue. 

Negi said that the elected representative like councilors and BDC members in urban and rural areas should also be involved in creating a mass awareness drive on the dengue. He directed the health department officials to undertake measures like street plays in rural and urban areas with the help of Asha workers. Emphasizing on preventive measures to check spread of mosquitoes the health minister asked the officials to earmark the potentially sensitive areas for dengue like slums in the urban areas. He directed the officers of education department to ensure that methods to prevent spread of the disease are discussed in the Morning Prayer meetings in all the schools.

The DG health services, Dr R P Bhatt said that dengue is viral disease and has symptoms like acute head ache and fever. He said that the paracetamol  tablet should be advised to control fever. Dr Bhatt said that mosquito larvae should be destroyed. He said that water should not be allowed to collect in places like coolers, old tyres, pots and other places. The meeting was attended by health sectary Dr Bhunpendra Kaur, ADM Jharna Kamthan, CEO Dehradun  S P Khali, CMO Dehradun Dr S P Agarwal and others.