PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed by the DMO Dr Kaling Dai, a team of doctors and officials in carrying outsource reduction activities followed by awareness programme, fogging and …
MYSURU: Hospitals in Mysuru have b een flooded with people who feel they're suffering from dengue fever. Their relatives are pressurizing doctors to admit ailing family member and this has resulted in lack of beds at popular hospitals across the city. When parents of Varun, a 17-year-old pre-university course student …
For over 2 years, important posts of malaria officers, domestic breeding checkers have not been filled Though the monsoon will bring in the onset of the mosquito menace, Delhi's civic bodies are clearly not prepared. Sources in the public health department say that they do not have enough manpower to …
On the basis of the complaints received, inspectors will ensure fogging, on a priority basis, every day in dengue-prone areas. Hoping to curb the spread of dengue in the district, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has arranged for continuous fogging in the city, constituting teams on the basis of …
The vector-borne disease like dengue, Japanese Encephalitis and malaria have broken out in various places of Golaghat district. According to report, in Golaghat district, a student of Sarupathar had been suffering from fever and later she was confirmed as a Japanese Encephalitis victim. The student died in the local hospital …
This is not the first time figures related to the dengue-chikungunya fight have come under scanner. That’s all the time a domestic breeding checker has to figure out if there are mosquitoes at one home, and educate residents about vector-borne diseases. Doing the job properly takes thrice as long, finds …
Last year, Sonia Vihar was worst hit by the dengue-chikungunya outbreak in East Delhi. The Indian Express goes back to to see what’s changed — and what hasn’t On June 2, almost 50 officers stood in the courtroom, offering little by way of explanation. The Delhi High Court had just …
The threat of mosquito-borne diseases continues to loom large over the abutting areas of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Pune's Lohegaon Airport. An entomological survey carried out by the officials of the Union health ministry in April showed considerable presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' larvae in 400m radius outside …
“The DBCs have been collecting data on paper registers since 1996 but we did not develop a micro plan to cover each and every house on regular and fixed intervals. The new technology will help remove this shortcoming,” the commissioner said. Parts of south Delhi will soon see Domestic Breeding …
New app to allow data collection on vulnerable areas, fines issued and fogging South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) Mayor Kamaljeet Sehrawat on Monday launched an app that will allow mosquito-control staff to effectively collect data on dengue and chikungunya. The app will also help in organising data on 16 vulnerable …
District laboratory is the sole authority to confirm dengue cases: DHO The Department of Health and Family Welfare in Mysuru on Thursday asked the managements of private hospitals in the district to stringently comply with clinical procedures on dengue and other vector-borne diseases and warned of action if they deviate …
An amount of Rs 4.65 crore has been allocated to East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) for the same purpose, a senior government official said. The Delhi government today said it has released nearly Rs 25 crore to all three municipal corporations of the city to tackle the dengue and chikungunya …
Reviewing dengue and chikungunya preparedness in the national Capital, Lt. Governor Anil Baijal today directed the city agencies to step up the awareness exercise and steps taken to control the breeding of mosquitoes in the capital. The Lt. Governor directed the officials to launch an “information, education and communication” campaign …
NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation held a special house meeting on Tuesday to discuss the action plan for prevention of vector-borne diseases. Around 40 cases of dengue and 97 cases of chikungunya were reported across the capital this year. However, the corporation claimed everything was under control and there …
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday said that it was shocked to know that the Haryana Bhawan is a breeding ground for mosquitoes and is a health hazard to Delhiites. The NGT directed the Resident Commissioner of Haryana to immediately ensure that the bhawan is made mosquito-free and waste deposits …
NEW DELHI: Cases of dengue continue to increase in spite of high temperature. In the past week, municipal corporation report shows that 21cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been reported in the city. The total number of dengue cases has gone up to 40, while malaria and chikungunya cases have …
Rickety old buses lying abandoned at Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) depots here were breeding grounds for mosquitoes, leading to a rise in dengue and chikungunya, the National Green Tribunal has said, directing the DTC to form a task force to tackle the problem. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice …
MANGALURU: With a death suspected due to dengue in the district, the vector-borne diseases have arrived along with monsoons. But there seems to be a serious problem at hand with district health officials suspecting whether a different serotype of the virus had caused this death. In Dakshina Kannada, out of …
AHMEDABAD: As you read this, there are some 90,746 expectant mothers in Ahmedabad, most of them poor and living in slums, chawls and low income localities of the city which are the most vulnerable to the deadly Zika virus tranmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. None …
NEW DELHI: Shocked at the "complete apathy" in removing garbage from residential areas, the Delhi high court on Wednesday cracked the whip on civic agencies. In a specially convened hearing, a bench of acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar got a news programme by a TV …
Countries in this category may experience outbreaks of the disease, which will be difficult to distinguish from seasonal fluctuations or surveillance artefacts: warns WHO Following the detection of Zika virus cases in India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has put India in Category 2 of risk classification, which essentially means …
