| Will Health Deptt take Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya cases seriously ? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 19: Instead of initiating work on ground level, the Directorate Health Services has preferred to publish an advisement in dailies, just to reduce own responsibilities, has once again raised questions over the awareness camps on its prevention-spread among the public.
Despite tall claims of Health Department assigned top priority to healthcare, its failure to provide basic facilities, and even they failed to hold camps to spread awareness about Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya among the people of the across Jammu. As well as, the concerned officials have also failed to fogging and spray of other chemicals to prevent mosquito breeding in vulnerable areas.
"Unfortunately, the concerned department didn't learn any lessons from past cases and they are following same pattern this year too by showing least interest to make preparations to deal with this deadly menace" sources alleged.
Sources further added that department has preferred to waste money on advertisements instead of working o the ground level. If department will not show interest to make the people aware before the start of the season of dengue , the situation will worsen. An official of the department, seeking anonymity, told that the department has needed to take preventive steps by holding numbers of camps in the municipal area, particularly rural areas. Doctors and other staff of rural area should be asked by the DHS to aware people about the prevention of Malaria, Dengue, and Chikungunya.
"People should be asked by rural health staff to clean water stagnating places like sun shades, open or unsealed septic tanks, roof gutter buckets, broken electrical appliances and plastic materials as they can hold water which would serve as breeding space for the mosquitoes. Pamphlet carrying message about the symptoms of dengue fever and preventive measures that need to be taken by the people were distributed to residents at their home and at public places. The symptoms of dengue include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains and rash skin, then immediately consult the nearby doctor.
The department has not started rearing Gambusia fish into water bodies and ponds to control breeding of mosquitoes. The department has not shown interest in taking preventive measures to start anti-dengue operations. |
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