Jamshedpur: The sting of Dengue virus is spreading across the steel city. According to information 25 fresh cases have been reported in different areas.
“The patients are admitted at various hospitals including Tata Main Hospital, Tata Motors Hospital, Bramhananda Narayana Superspecialist Hospital, Kantilal Gandhi Memorial Hospital, MGM Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital and Tinplate Hospital. Significantly, these patients have turned up from almost all the localities including Bistupur, Sakchi, Mango, Jugsalai, Kadma, Sonari, Sitaramdera, Telco and Golmuri,” said an official of the health department.
He said that as the fresh cases have come from all the localities of the city, they would continue the dengue action plan afresh in all the areas of the city. He pointed out the drive against dengue will continue until they get no more case of it.
The resurfacing of dengue positive
cases has prompted the East Singhbhum district health department to direct the
district filaria for a change in strategy adopting to counter vector (Aedes
Aegypti) menace.
�As per latest directive of the district civil surgeon we have asked our men to
carry out fogging exercise in the affected areas of Jugsalai and Mango with
focus on identifying and destroying unused containers storing waters in houses
and localities and educating locals about steps to prevent breeding of dengue vectors,� said the official.
This exercise would be held simultaneously with routine methods of spraying
larvicidal in the area.
“We need to understand that mosquitoes that carry the virus of dengue do not come from outside, rather they generate from the
household things like flower-pots, coolers water, rejected tyre kept on the
roof top or in the corner of the garden. So we must ensure that there is
no such place where water is stagnant for sometime,” he noted.
He said that the administration will launch a special drive to create awareness
on dengue and the Health Department will monitor the
onset of the disease.
According to experts the unattended filth and garbage spread all over are some of the major reasons that have led to the breeding of mosquitoes. Bite of the aedes aegypti mosquito causes dengue fever. The aedes breeds not in the dirty water, rather in fresh stagnant water like in the old tyres, flower pots and abandoned utensils.
