Ludhiana: Dengue case is increasing in Ludhiana District as 20 cases have been reported in the last 10 days.
Data from the Ministry of Health until Wednesday night revealed that 51 cases have emerged in the Ludhiana district so far, of the 25 patients from Ludhiana, 21 owned by other districts in Punjab and five of the other States or the United States.
Of the 25 cases from Ludhiana, 23 came from Urban Ludhiana, each of the Sidhwan bet and Jagraon.
Twenty-one other patients came from Muktsar, Hoshiarpur, Moga, Jalandhar, SBS Nagar, Musa, Faridkot, Muktsar, Kapurthala Regency and five of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.
Until August 16, 31 cases have been reported in Ludhiana who included patients from districts and states or other union regions.
The number has been penetrated from three on July 1 to 20 in August 2.
In comparison, there are two cases of dengue fever until last year.
While 2015 has seen cases of maximum dengue fever at 1,876, the same has dropped to 489 in 2018.
But there was a sharp increase in the case (1,509) in 2019, which fell to 1,355 years ago.
However, the death of dengue fever has declined from seven years 2015 to only 1 in 2018.
There were no deaths reported in 2019, while two people died of the disease transmitted by vectors last year.
When cases of dengue fever have witnessed an increase, health officials said it was the cause of worries, but the steps were taken to check the spread.
Civil Surgeon Dr.
Kiran Ahluwalia said they had implemented a plan to check the cases of dengue.
He said besides the city corporation, the Ministry of Health has formed 18 teams of each of the two members, including the assistant of the Malaria (AMO) officer, to check the spread of the disease transmitted through vectors.
A health worker who asked not to be named said even though the team visited various regions to examine mosquito breeding, Ludhiana Municipal Corporation had an important role to play by ensuring fogging in various regions.
Meanwhile, residents complained that fogging had not been carried out by the department concerned in their area.
“I haven’t seen a team that comes to our area for fogging this year.
The department concerned must do fogging regularly, so people don’t fall prey with dengue fever, malaria etc.,” said Kulwant Singh from Dugri.
Can be added as a box: box 1: Case case (reported in Ludhiana District) 2015 1.876 7 2016 755 1 2017 1 2018 489 1 2019 1 2019 0 2020 1,355 2 2021 * 51 0 * Till August Box 2: Up to August 25, Night The suspected case reported by Ludhiana district was 491 from which 462 people came from the district.
Until August 19 night, 303 suspected cases were reported in the district where 286 such cases came from Ludhiana Regency.
Box 3: Cases from Ludhiana come from Town, Ferozepur Road, Ashapuri, Civil Line, Rani Jhansi Road, Kailash Chowk, Chander Nagar, Bhamia Road, Kundanpuri and Basti Jodhewal, Kundanpuri, and Basti Jodhewal