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| Several typhoid cases reported in Rajouri, precautionary measures initiated | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 13: After numerous increase in fever cases in Rajouri city and its adjoining areas, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Rajiv Sharma has constituted two teams of doctors and paramedical staff to conduct awareness programmes and also made available chlorine tablets in all the health centers. Dr Rajiv Sharma said that for the last 3-4 days many cases of typhoid have been reported at district hospital and health centres in the vicinity of Rajouri city.
"The data was also collected from the health centres and diagnostic laboratories and was found that most of the patients belong to Rajouri city and its adjoining areas and the reason behind this was established as contaminated water supplied through Public Health Engineering (PHE) department," said CMO.He added that the matter has also been taken up with the district administration as well as Executive Engineers of PHE and Hydraulic departments to check the leakage / source of contamination of water supplied through PHE pipes. He further said that people from every age group are affected and children are more vulnerable to this disease.
Medical teams have been deputed in the city and its adjoining areas to aware the people about Typhoid. "As neither no death has taken place nor any patient was referred to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, so it is not feasible at this time to declare Typhoid as an epidemic," said CMO. Dr Mehmood, Superintendent District hospital said that out of 148 cases registered at Medicine and Pediatrics OPDs in the district hospital today, 65 cases were found of Typhoid. "As almost all the cases coming from Rajouri city and its adjoining areas it can't be said that it's an epidemic. Contaminated water supplied by PHE was the main reason behind it and people should be advised to drink boil water at least for 10 minutes," said Dr Mehmood. Pertinently PHE department has a defunct water filtration plant and the water pipes laid in the city are more than 50 years old and at most of the places pipes passes through drains and are damaged. Contaminated water carrying human waste, as more than 70 percent homes in the city don't have septic tanks, enters these pipes and is the main reason behind increase in Typhoid cases. Today on the directions from CMO, a medical team including Dr Chaman Bhasin, District Health Officer (DHO), Dr Yash Karsyal, District Immunization Officer, Dr Sumit and Rakesh Gupta, Principal Boys Higher Secondary School held an awareness programme in the school and aware the students about the reasons/symptoms/remedies of Typhoid. Dr Rajiv said that during next few days many such awareness programmes will be held at various schools and health teams will also visit the various localities. |
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