Chandigarh: Health Minister Haryana, Anil Vij on Monday directing the Ministry of Health officers and all state civil surgeons to build coordination with deputy commissioners, urban departments and officials of the Department of Pancayati Raj in their respective districts to take the needs of the steps for the prevention of dengue fever and also focus on intensive fogging.
VIJ cheats reviews about dengue and covid vaccination with all state civil surgeons through video conferencing.
He directs to take the necessary steps and make special efforts to prevent dengue fever because cases increase continuously.
He said that the health team must be activated for prevention of mosquito-transmitted diseases and these teams must continue to examine the larvae and also insist on spraying drugs.
VIJ said that even though there was no death because dengue fever in the country so far, efforts must be made to reduce cases of dengue fever until now 60 percent of patients are testing positive.
Likewise, while referring to the new guidelines regarding giving platelets to dengue fever patients, he said that the government had issued new guidelines on platelets, which will be distributed with officials and doctors concerned immediately.
Providing guidelines for Covid, the Minister of Health requested officials to accelerate vaccination and especially for the second dose, contact people who qualified and work to vaccinate them.
On that occasion, the Head of the Additional School, Ministry of Health, Rajeev Arora, ensuring that the Minister of Health said that special emphasis would be placed on the prevention of dengue fever and the focus would be directed at the second dose of the Covid vaccine.
Intensive fogging is needed to stop dengue: vij
