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| Wake up call against deadly fever | | |
A stitch in time saves nine. It is high time that the health
authorities in Jammu and Kashmir wake up to the alarm bells about
apprehension of dengue fever infecting this part of the country,
particularly the winter capital of the state and other parts of the
region. Two suspected cases of the fatal dengue fever have been
reported from city's slum outskirts. Although the superintendent SMGS
hospital as well as the principal GMC hospital have denied any reports
of dengue fever having come to the notice of authorities, yet it is
reported that two persons who had come to SMGS hospital late on Sunday
night, on preliminary investigation were found to be suffering from
dengue fever. Although the health and medical authorities have not yet
verified the spread of dengue fever in Jammu and Kashmir or any
patient found positive after investigation of blood samples of some
patients suffering from fever, yet it is the high time that the
authorities give up complacency and wake up to the situation of threat
of the deadly fever infiltrating the state. The alarm bells rung in
the national capital and around about with over four hundred cases of
patients infected with dengue fever admitted in AAIMS and some other
hospitals of Delhi alone and about three hundred cases reported from
the satellite towns of Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad forming parts of the
national capital city and adjoining Gaziabad should be cause enough to
create alarm in other parts of the country. The death toll by deadly
fever in the country's capital has already touched a figure of about
two dozen. Believing in the dictum "prevention is better than cure",
the concerned authorities should rise to the occasion to prevent the
menace reaching here, if it has not already touched Jammu. The
measures should be taken on war footing to prevent the disease.
However one finds no sign of any preparations on the part of concerned
authorities to prevent the occurrence of the fetal fever among the
inhabitants in any part of the city, its suburbs and other towns and
villages in Jammu. If it really is detected then to take measures to
check its spread and cure the patients. Dengue is spread by the bite
of an Aides mosquito, which transmits the disease by biting an
infected person and then biting some other person, thus transmitting
the disease. While people at large should be enlightened about the
phenomenon, so that there is no under panic, which in itself is
dangerous, yet public should be fully educated about taking the
necessary preventive measures, like maintaining of sanitation and
cleanliness around them, drying up the pits etc containing water and
wherever there is stagnant water, sprinkling of disinfectants like
petrol and kerosene oil etc. Above all the authorities in the health
and medical education department and the municipal corporation should
immediately come to action to spray disinfectants and undertake other
preventive measures. A situation that has unfortunately developed in
the country's capital, where the prestige of the renowned medical
institution, AAIMS for its alleged failure to cope with the emergent
situation, is at stake, should not bed allowed to develop here also by
waking only after the danger starts knocking at our door. The
hospitals and other medical aid centers should be well equipped to
give quick treatment to the patients to cure them of the disease
before it over powers them.
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