JAIPUR: The health department has issued warning to its officials over negligence in combating seasonal diseases. For preventing the spread of dengue, the department has to ensure fogging and other activities in the affected areas. It has come to the department’s notice that the same was not being followed properly.
Additional chief secretary (health) Shubhra Singh has instructed the officials to ensure effective prevention of seasonal diseases like malaria, dengue and scrub typhus. No negligence will be tolerated, she said while giving instructions to prepare a special action plan through all the chief medical and health officers and carry out necessary activities for the prevention of seasonal diseases.
The department has appointed joint directors in all zones for intensive monitoring and supervision of prevention and control activities of seasonal diseases in nine districts -Dholpur, Bikaner, Bharatpur, Baran, Dausa, Sriganganagar, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Udaipur, most-affected by seasonal diseases.
Aiming to prevent seasonal diseases, the number of survey teams will be increased as per requirement and regular monitoring of source reduction and anti-larvae activities will be ensured. She said that all the district collectors will also regularly review seasonal diseases.
Keeping in view the increasing number of cases of seasonal diseases in the district hospitals, Singh directed to ensure alternative arrangements and to make arrangements for the treatment of patients by creating anti-mosquito wards at the community health centre level.
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