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Four cases of malaria reported

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: Four persons have been diagnosed with malaria in the district. They had come from outside the State, said sources at the District Medical Office here on Tuesday.

About the cases reported at various centres here during the past couple of days, A. Baburaj, District Manager, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) said all the cases of malaria detected in the district were imported cases.

“There is no cause for alarm as of now since the four persons afflicted with the infection have come from outside. Local-level vector control measures will have to be taken up on an urgent basis to prevent the disease from spreading. This has to be primarily carried out in the respective households and areas where the infection has been reported,” he said.

The fever cases in the area would have to be monitored. Of the four cases reported, two were in the Kozhikode Corporation limits and one each from North Beypore and Perambra.

Dr. Baburaj said the standard protocol treatment of chloroquin and primaquin would be administered for those afflicted with malaria. The district had sufficient quantities of the drugs. The incidence of malaria was low in Kozhikode district.

The cases of malaria reported from the Corporation limits were from Mankave and Kottooli. The infected were two youths who had come from Mumbai.

A 78-year-old woman from North Beypore and a 50-year-old woman from Perambra had been diagnosed with malaria infected and both the women had come from Chennai.

Sources said the public response to vector eradication was lukewarm. Vector control measures needed to be initiated to prevent the outbreak of chikungunya in areas where it had been reported. A 20-year-old youth was diagnosed with dengue fever at the Valayam primary health centre.

The infection was confirmed by the Regional Public Health Laboratory here. The fever cases in the district revealed a downward trend, sources said.

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