Jamshedpur: Fearing a potential epidemic of vector-borne ailments throughout the monsoon period the district health department has written to each of the significant hospitals and health care centers in East Singhbhum, requesting them to maintain all the required facilities prepared for curing patients diagnosed with hepatitis, chikungunyaand brain fever, and malaria and diarrhoea.
“Rainfall and also the consequent changes in temperatures cause an epidemic of vector- borne diseases and that’s the reason why physicians are requested to maintain all the required facilities prepared.
The hospitals need to share together with the information of individuals coming with complaints of these ailments in order that timely treatment could be given to them” additional primary medical officer Sahir Pall stated.
The letter has been issued to MGM Medical College and Hospital, sadar hospital, and Tata Motors Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Tata Main Hospital, Tinplate Hospital, Brahmananda Narayana Multispecialty Hospital and the medical officers-in-charge.
The health area is also making certain larvae density polls are complete from the vulnerable regions from the respective civil bodies.
Pall said they’re making sure water-logged drains are washed and trash is disposed of from the agencies involved daily.
“Together with cleaning the drains, then the urban bodies will need to sprinkle whitening powder, then spray anti-larvae compounds and be certain fogging is completed,” he further added.
“Stagnant water is an perfect breeding ground for creatures and individuals will need to be certain air-coolers, lost tyres or some other object which has stagnant water is washed frequently,” Pall said.
Steel City has a record of reporting that a lot of dengue cases.
In 2017the district declared 150 instances and two decades afterwards, the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee invoked Section 133 of the CrPC to penalize people for not maintaining their cowsheds clean.