Dengue to be made notifiable disease to prevent its spread

The district health department is planning to make dengue a notifiable disease and direct private doctors and hospitals to immediately notify health officials about patients with symptoms of dengue.

Only communicable diseases recorded at public hospitals are taken into account on a case-by-case basis. For dengue cases -- suspected, detected or treated -- at private hospitals, the numbers are alerted on a weekly or monthly basis.

Once implemented, doctors and hospitals will have to report every case of the mosquito-borne infection to the public health machinery so that prevention and containment measures can be initiated immediately to check its spread and prevent an outbreak situation.

Upon learning suspected or detected cases, health department officials can immediately carry out preventive measures such as fogging, adding gambusia fish to water bodies or eliminate stagnating water, officials said.

“As there is no specific drug and commercially available vaccine, prevention is the only strategy. Therefore, early reporting of dengue cases is necessary for implementing preventive measures, before it spreads further in an epidemic proportion. Hence, modules for implementing the direction are being chalked out,” a senior health official said.

It is learnt that the initiative has been given serious consideration following last year’s dengue cases figures when the city reported 401 cases, a three-year high.

Hence, this year, a larger emphasis has been given to dengue fever. The health authorities have undertaken various measures this season such as issuing directions to private hospitals for displaying dengue prices on their signboards and making it mandatory for private hospitals to not charge more than Rs 600 for dengue tests.

Web portal and helpline numbers for dengue

The district health department has also launched a web portal -www.humvsdengue.org on to help dengue patients find required blood group, map of all hospitals in the city and information about insurance schemes available for children suffering from dengue.

The health department has also launched a helpline number 0124-2222465 for dengue related complaints and an anti-fogging helpline number 1800-180-1817. People can report their complaints from 9 am to 5pm on all days.

Steps to curb outbreak of swine flu, malaria, dengue: Bawankule

Nagpur: The Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, concerned over the heavy toll the rain-related diseases take, has directed the District Administration to initiate all necessary measures for curbing the outbreak of swine flu, malaria, dengue and other infectious diseases in the city as well as rural areas. Viral fever and air-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria and swine flu raise their ugly heads particularly during monsoon session. Many patients visit the civic hospitals for check-ups hence preventive as well as remedial measures should be in place to combat the diseases, Bawankule said.

The following preventive and remedial measures could be taken:
• Survey of fever-afflicted patients.
• Sending of blood samples of suspect patients to labs.
• Disposal of garbage and waste material at public places.
• Spraying of disinfectants at accumulated water breeding larvae of mosquitoes.
• Fogging in every village, limits of civic bodies at least twice a month.
• Intense awareness drive.

The District Administration has been advised to approach District Planning Committee in case they face shortage of funds in initiating such measures. A meeting was held and senior officers from the health department have been asked to submit a report about the programmes undertaken to curb the spread of diseases and the medical amenities provided by the civic hospitals.

Health officers find problems in controlling dengue

Health officers due to shortage of workers these days find problems in controlling dengue in city and the same situation is in other districts. It is the reason why dengue larva teams were not increased from 25 that are continued for the last two or more months. Due to shortage of malaria workers, now the Health Department has decided to take services of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to control dengue in city, might be the same will be happened in other districts. There are about 80,000 ASHAs doing different type of works in rural areas and urban areas too. However, for urban areas there are Urban Social Health Activists (USHAs) but they are few.

According to information, district health authorities have decided to impart training to the district’s 80 ASHAs about dengue, malaria and other seasonal diseases. There might be three to five days training to ASHAs might be next week. 
However, the dengue suspected and positive patients are found but not more so the health officers are not so serious about it. They will be asked to go door to door to know about the fever and see the dengue larvae, create awareness among the public how to be protected from the dengue and malaria. They will usually go to the slum areas of the city from where more cases of dengue were found. No dengue larvae survey in all parts of the district this time, the teams are sent to only those areas from where the dengue positive patients are found or complaints are from VIPs in their areas.

Senior medical specialist said once the dengue larvae started breeding in water deposited at inside and outside houses, it will be difficult to control dengue fever, so there is need to control it in advance. Kolar area where there were more dengue patients in last two years and the senior officers were forced to come on road to create awareness among the public besides monitoring the dengue larvae survey. When contacted Dr Veena Sinha, Chief Medical and Health Officer, said dengue larvae survey teams will be hiked soon. At present there are 25 teams. Besides, 80 ASHAs will soon be imparted training how to survey.

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Dengue patients note! Online portal, helplines, avail now

Dengue patients hailing from Gurgaon can now immediately access information regarding maps of the city’s hospitals , blood groups, and insurance scheme details, on an exclusive and detailed ‘first of its kind’ portal called “humvsdengue.org” that was started on Wednesday, by the State Government .

This is a special step taken by the authorities to make available immediate help and proper treatment options for the agonized dengue effected patients. The help lines offered by the authorities for the aid of the people are:

Dengue awareness helpline: (0124-2222465)
Anti-mosquito fogging helpline (1800-180-1817)
These two numbers can be contacted from 9 AM to 5 PM.

The deputy civil surgeon, Snehlata, from Gurgaon has revealed to the Times of India, stating “The initiative will make it easier for volunteers to register themselves for blood donation, and also dengue patients to find donors. Besides this, the portal has all information about dos and don’ts at this time of the year. The objective is to prevent spread of dengue.”

The portal will have details on the dengue cases in the city, confirmed dengue cases and the patients receiving treatment. The Government school students can now avail a free insurance scheme initiated by the authorities and a private company.

Reports are confirming that the District authorities have managed to get almost 48 Government schools covered under the insurance initiative. The economically weaker children are also being provided provisions. Talking about this Snehlata said that the parents and the children both need to be aware of the free insurance scheme and its benefits offered by the authorities and said that, “We are also providing a list of all private hospitals so that children in need can immediately be rushed to nearest hospitals once they are diagnosed with dengue.”

7 Ways This New Website Can Help Dengue Patients in Gurugram

The district authority in Gurugram launched an online portal named humvsdengue.org on Wednesday to help patients suffering from dengue. People can find information related to blood donors, hospital locations, details of insurance schemes, etc.

The website will help people in the following ways:

1. Volunteers can register themselves for blood donation.

2. Dengue patients can find donors.

3. People can find information about the dos and don’ts to prevent the disease at this time of the year.

4. Obtain information on the total number of confirmed dengue cases reported in the city and the number of patients treated.

5. Anti-mosquito fogging helpline detail (1800-180-1817)

6. Dengue awareness helpline detail (0124-2222465)

7. Option for sponsoring a child’s dengue insurance.

Dengue:Types,Symptoms,Prevention And Stats

Dengue Might Be At Your Doorsteps

Knock It Out Before It knocks You Out ! ! !

Monsoon has arrived and so the dengue. Dengue is one of the most deadly vector borne disease affecting millions of people every year. Dengue outbreak has proven to be fatal many a times in history.

You must be properly equipped before you go on fighting against dengue. This article will make you aware of tactics and things that will help you in fighting dengue

Things to know:

• What is dengue ?
• Types of dengue fever
• Dengue symptoms
• Last year's dengue stats
• Dengue's preventive measures

What is dengue ?

Dengue is a vector borne disease that spreads through the infectious bite of female mosquito Aedes Ageypti(dengue parasite). These mosquitoes breed in fresh water and generally bite during day time or morning time.

Types of Dengue Fever

Dengue fever is generally of 2 types:

1. Normal dengue fever
2. Severe dengue fever

NOTE:-

Symptoms of Dengue Fever 

Dengue Diagnosis

• At preliminary stage, to diagnose dengue Antigen blood test (NS1)is to be done.
• If, going for diagnosis after 3-4 days, from the day you actually started developing symptoms of dengue, then go for Antibody test (Dengue Serology).
• Do keep check on the platelets count every time you for for the test.

Dengue Prevention

1. Fill up the digs or pits near by your surrounding.
2. Don't let water to stand still in water coolers, in bathrooms, in pots(flower pots!!!!).
3. Wear full sleeve clothes during day.
4. Do spread insecticides/pesticides in water coolers, near pots.

Have a look at last years outbreak in these pics

Present Scenario

Countries like Yemen, Phillipines, Brazil have come up as the worst hit dengue regions this year and thing to worry about is that it all has just started there are yet many cases to come up. In India state like Odisha is heavily affected by dengue. Jagatpur, Cuttack, Barbil are also some areas that have shown the signs of dengue outbreak.

Don't Forget, They Spread When We Become Careless

KEEP CALM AND STAY ALERT