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Slum screening, more tests in plans to check dengue fever, malaria

Slum screening, more tests in plans to check dengue fever, malaria
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Gurgaon: The Ministry of Health on Monday directing all hospitals to carry out supervision for alleged cases of dengue fever, malaria and chikungunya.
The population of migration in rustic and urban slums will be played on priority and the fast action team has been asked to prepare a contingency plan to load any plague.
“The case of dengue fever shows a trend in the increase in Haryana.
Collection and collection of samples for dengue fever, Chikungunya, Malaria and H1N1 must be increased by all districts,” ACS (Health) Rajeev Arora said in a letter to all districts.
Gurgaon on Monday reported three cases of dengue fever, took the calculation to 13.
The patients included a seven-year-old boy from the 89 sector, a 29-year-old man from sector 103 and a 31-year-old woman from sector 65.
Everything has recovered.
Some hospitals also witnessed the increase in virus fever cases, health officials said.
“All health care centers have been asked to improve the collection of samples from the OPD and the corner of the flu and increase testing to prevent any outbreaks.
They have also been instructed to reduce the source and anti-larval and urban steps, especially side by side with Delhi, “said Chief Medical Officer Yadav.
He added, “The sample collection for supervision of fever will be held without reducing Covid tests, which must continue at least 30,000 / day.” The Asha team will visit all rustic and urban slum areas and intensify door-to-door supervision to identify the earliest fever cases.
The team was told to do fogging during the night where high vector density was reported by entomologist studies.
In the last two months, 19,59,906 houses were examined and 9075 notifications had been issued as a larvae of 18,117 found positive.
Dr.
R Dutun, Hod (internal drug), Paras Hosmital, said they got some cases of dengue fever.
“Cases of malaria and typhus have increased among patients received as well.
There are more cases of adults testing positively this disease, because the school is closed,” he added.
The city has the highest number of dengue cases in 2015 when a total of 451 cases were reported.
Seeing 86 cases in 2016, 66 in 2017 and 93 in 2018.
Last year, less than 15 cases of dengue fever reported.

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