Saturday, 09 July 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
In view of the ongoing monsoon season and chances of outbreak of Dengue, the state health department has come into an alert mode. The chief secretary of Uttarakhand S S Sandhu has directed that all the departments of the state should work in coordination to tackle dengue. On Friday, the director general (DG) state health services Dr Shailja Bhatt asked all chief medical officers (CMO) to remain in alert mode on dengue. She said that the state government has asked the district magistrates (DM) that all departments should be actively involved in prevention and control of dengue. Dr Bhatt directed the CMOs to undertake a dengue sanitation campaign and prepare a block wise micro plan against the disease.
The DG health said that all the districts should have facilities to test the dengue and isolation wards should be set in all the hospitals. She said that nodal officers should be nominated in all the hospitals for dengue and blood banks should have adequate availability of platelets.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito. The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decreases drastically which may prove fatal for the patient. Rainy season is most conducive for rapid growth of mosquitoes which can lay about 1200 eggs at a time and 400 -500 larvae can emerge from these eggs that take a week’s time to hatch. The mosquito infected with virus thus can increase its number exponentially infecting large numbers of people in a short span of time. The female tiger mosquito strikes during day time and doctors suggest that people should wear full sleeved clothes to prevent mosquito bite.
In Uttarakhand the disease is more prevalent in Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
