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| Neglected by successive regimes, now Jammu city tops dengue cases in JK | | Working of JMC, directorate of Health services under scanner of health experts | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 8: Neglected by successive regimes since 1947, the winter capital of Jammu now tops the deadly Dengue cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir.
Official sources said since January 1, 2019 to September 30 over 850 blood samples were taken from suspect cases whereas as many as 120 odd cases of dengue have been reported from the Jammu region. One dozen were of them were reported in the last week of September alone.
Shockingly, the Jammu district has recorded highest number of dengue cases with as many as 38 confirmed cases from the city alone. Jammu is followed by Samba with atleast 29 cases. 21 have been reported from Rajouri and 14 from Kathua whereas mere five cases were reported from Udhampur.
What is even more shocking is that the cases of dengue can only rise in the coming winter months when this disease expands its tentacles further.
Though the officials said no death has been reported till now from any of the cases, dengue continues to be a life threatening ailment caused by mosquitoes.
Analysts said while New Delhi has managed to reduce the number of dengue cases by almost seventy percent in the last three years though better sanitation services, Jammu is a story of neglect as successive regimes never bothered to give the winter capital its due attention.
A public health expert said it was essentially the failure on the part of the Jammu Municipal Corporation and the Directorate of Health Services Jammu that dengue causing mosquitoes are breeding and infecting people so rapidly in the winter capital.
"If proper sanitation conditions were ensured and regular fogging was done by the JMC such would not have been the threat to life by dengue in Jammu. The other fault lies with the health department that it has failed in proper public awareness to get rid of the dengue," said the analyst.
A senior official in the Civil Secretariat said the Raj Bhawan needs to take up the issue seriously. |
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