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Central medical team arriving today

Staff Reporter

Special teams constituted to monitor situation

PATHANAMTHITTA : A Central team headed by B.K Prasad, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, will visit the chikungunya-affected area on Tuesday.

According to Thomas Mathew, convener of the Fever Containment Cell, and Dinesh Arora, deputy secretary to the Health Department, the Health Department has already supplied additional fogging machines and sprayers to all the panchayats as part of the ongoing intensive vector-control programme in the chikungunya-affected areas in the district.

A special team of doctors from Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and National Rural Health Mission has been posted at various public health care centres in the affected panchayats.

They said 17 Junior Health Inspectors (JHI) have been transferred from various other districts, besides deploying 92 JHIs in the affected areas.

The construction of a semi-permanent inpatient ward at the Ranni Perinad Community Health Centre and at Chittar Primary Health Centre is fast progressing. They said flex boards would be put up at vantage points in all the affected panchayat wards. Road shows, public address system, messages through AIR and Doordarshan would be carried out as part of the public awareness campaign.

Dr. Arora said programme officers in the district had been directed to supervise the work done by the ward-level sanitation-cum-vector-control teams. A total of 200 JHIs will be recruited for the districts of Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki and Alappuzha on Monday. They would be given training on May 30 and 31 before being deployed in batches, Dr. Mathew said.

The control room of the Health Department here has confirmed the death of a 48-year-old woman due to viral fever in Chittar panchayat on Monday. The deceased was identified as Radhamani of Ayathil house at Madakkayam in Chittar.

A medical audit team, comprising Anuja, assistant professor, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, and Purushottam Bhatt, Deputy DMO, was constituted on Monday. The team visited the house of the deceased. According to them, the patient was admitted and treated at a private hospital in Chittar for severe urinary tract infection from May 17 to 19. The deceased had a history of recurrent urinary tract infections and she had swelling of face and limbs even before the onset of fever, they said.

Dr. Mathew said a team for performing entomological operations has also been constituted.

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