Under its Jaundice prevention and control programme, the district administration here has ordered all the Government-run primary health centers, community health centers and dispensaries to remain open on Sunday.
The health officials have been asked to conduct health check-up and blood tests of suspected patients of jaundice arriving at the Government run health centers between 9 am and 5 pm.
Instructions were issued to keep the health camps open on all seven days in the week until the situation is fully under control. District Collector Thakur Ram Singh held a meeting of the health and administrative officials to review the steps taken to curb the spread of the disease.
He ordered to send mobile health units on receiving any call about the jaundice cases from any part of the district. During the meeting, it was learnt that as many as 15 persons suffering from jaundice were discharged from different government hospitals on recovering their health on Saturday.
Presently, as many as 37 patients in the district hospital, 24 in Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital and 4 patients are admitted in the Ayurvedic Hospital for treatment of Jaundice.
Further, following the collector’s instructions, a temporary health camp erected in DD Nagar area was shifted to Changorbhata primary
health centre. Many people from nearby localities visited here for availing the benefit of health check-up and blood test, out of which, blood samples of as many as 25 suspected patients of Jaundice were sent to the laboratory.
Besides, all the government run hospitals, the district administration has made adequate arrangements for conducting health check-up and blood tests of the people arriving at the primary and community health centers situated in Kabir Nagar, Rajatalab, Kho Kho Para, Ram Nagar, Changorbhata, Bhatagaon, Mathmurena, labhandi, Bhanpuri, Gudhiyapari and Kanshi Nagar city dispensary.
Meanwhile, the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) revealed that as many as 96 water samples taken from across the district were found fit for drinking.