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.
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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