DEHRADUN: Seven new cases of dengue were registered in disease-hit Pathribagh on Friday, taking the total count of such patients to 91.
The numbers are set to rise further as authorities have collected 54 fresh blood samples on Friday from people who are suspected patients. In the evening, health minister Surinder Singh Negi and forest minister Dinesh Agrawal conducted an inspection in Pathribagh and took a note of complaints by local residents.
Some residents rued that Agrawal visited his constituency a week after the outbreak while the chief minister had visited the spot a day after the cases surfaced.
Corporator of Patel Nagar (West), Anita Singh, claimed that health department officials were not very proactive in spreading awareness among the people at the health camps.
"Today local residents had reached the spot at 10am to give blood samples but the officials turned up after 12:30pm. This reflects how seriously they are handling this issue. The fogging machine of the department is yet not functional. The municipal corporation is carrying out fogging drives but only outside and not inside homes," Singh said.
Meanwhile the CMO (Dehradun) has assured locals that the health camp staff would be present on the spot on time every day. "The task of the health camp has been deployed to an NGO. Its members should have been on the spot on time but they couldn't reach. We have directed the NGO as well as Indresh hospital staff to stick to the time."
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