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| Dengue outbreak in Jammu: Panic-stricken patients moving to Punjab for ‘reliable’ treatment | | Except spending crores on advt, Govt still in deep slumber | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 17: At a time when helpless residents of Jammu province are battling the COVID-19 pandemic, many parts of this region have been hit by a dengue fever outbreak.
As the panic-stricken residents of the plains of the Jammu region are shifting dengue patients outside the state for better and ‘reliable’ treatment, this mosquito-borne disease has gripped eight districts of Jammu province. Jammu, Samba, and Kathua are the worst affected but there is no exact record of the patients because fear-stricken people have shifted many patients to neighbouring Punjab or Delhi for advanced treatment. In Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu alone nearly 300 patients test dengue positive and their number is swelling with every passing day. The situation is worst in the outskirts where equipment is not available checking blood to detect dengue fever.
Health institutes in the Jammu region appear to be having failed in cope-up this problem so people are going for traditional treatment methods to get some relief or shifting the patients outside the State.
“Reports of GMCH are varying from reports of private laboratory so I decided to shift my cousin to Ludhiana for reliable treatment”, a local of Samba said, adding, “a large number of patients from Jammu are getting treatment outside State”.
Meanwhile Chetan Wanchoo, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) spokesperson while raising serious concern over the rising number of dengue cases in Jammu and has urged the administration to take effective measures to check further spread of the disease.
In a statement issued to media here today, Chetan Wanchoo castigated the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) authorities for not playing the due role in maintaining the optimum sanitation conditions that are necessary for the prevention and elimination of this disease. He accused the JMC of failure to carry out regular fogging drives in all the wards of Jammu city adding that this indicates the callous and negligence on the part of Corporation authorities besides their nonseriousness to deal with this deadly disease. |
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