Times News Network Kanpur: High-level Multidisciplinary Team sent by the Ministry of Health Union, on Monday, reaching the Pardevanpurwa area in Pokharpur in Kanpur where the case of the Zika virus was reported on Saturday.
The first patient from the Zika virus in Uttar Pradesh was detected in Kanpur after the Pune Laboratory confirmed the infection in the 57-year-old command officer from the Air Force station here on Saturday night.
Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Nepal Singh said, “The multidisciplinary team consisting of an Entomologist, public health specialist and obstetrician from the National Vector Disease Control Program, the National Disease Control Center and RML Hospital, New Delhi sent by the Ministry of Union has been deployed to help state health authorities for the size of the control and detention of the Zika virus.
“” High-level teams including a campaign team of diseases borne by Vector from Delhi visiting the affected area and observing the situation there, “CMO said then added,” said the alleged sample of people too Being taken.
Fever patients have also been taken in an investigation.
“Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, has declared Pardewanpurwa as a detention zone after the first Zika case in the country was reported here.
“The detention zone has been stated in a radius of one kilometer to track Zika patients, if any, in an affected area,” said Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Nepal Singh.
CMO said, 24 teams have been formed to get a sample of three hundred house pardevanpurwa.
On Sundays, five more samples were taken and sent to your kg lab in Lucknow.
This area has a population of around 1,300.
This area has been disanitized by the Ministry of Health by installing several teams.
The medical team deployed in the area was conducting a health survey from the household of the local population.
“We are also preparing a list of people who have traveled abroad or other countries in this country.
So far seven such people have been traced, but none of them are from Kerala or Maharashtra affected, where virus cases Zika was reported earlier, “said a senior health officer who added that patient contact search will be brought for the next two weeks.
After confirmation of the Zika virus infection in the Air Force personnel in Kanpur, Zika Wing has been raised at Lala Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital.
“On the pregnant block where Covid patients are stored, 10 beds have been provided for Zika patients,” said the Head of the LLR Dr.
RK Maurya Medical Inspector.
The kit is also being purchased to test the sample for the Zika virus, he said.
Dr.
Maurya said, the expert team from the Ministry of Medicine has been formed and investigations will begin immediately after buying Zika’s testing kit.
The GSVM Medical College Microbiology department has a machine, but no kit, he said.
“If there are patients with the symptoms of the Zika virus reported, the sample will be sent to Lucknow to be examined,” he added.
The Ursala Cms Hospital Dr.
Anil Nigam said that the bed was currently intended for Zika and there was complete preparation in the hospital too.
“All arrangements with the team of doctors and drugs already exist.
We will start the patient immediately after their arrival,” Dr.
Nigam added.