District to focus on measures to control chikungunya, dengue

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District to focus on measures to control chikungunya, dengue
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Pune, June 29:

DISTRICT health officials have decided to focus on chikungunya and dengue control measures after the recent case of chikungunya and 14 cases of dengue in Pune district.

There have been four outbreaks of malaria in Pune district with 807 cases reported from January to June, this year.

The emphasis will be on observing ?dry day?, where all water containers are emptied out, once a week and weekly fogging to control breeding of mosquitoes.

Pune is one of the high risk districts in the state for vector-borne diseases, the others being Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and Raigad, the health officials said.

With June as the month for monsoon preparedness under the state vector-borne control programme, joint director of health services (malaria and filaria) Dr BP Gaikwad at a press meet in Zilla Parishad stressed the dry day concept.

He called for local self-government bodies to take coercive action and fix one day as ?dry day? in the week .

Training of the officials with visits to at least 100 houses to find out whether there are any malaria cases, would be monitored, he said. All private and government hospitals have been alerted and medicines have been stocked, he said.

Gaikwad said there have been nine outbreaks of gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, and hepatitis this year in Pune district.

?Efforts are on to supply clean drinking water by using necessary water purification measures,? he also said.

Table 2006 2007 (Jan-June)

* MALARIA 484 807
* DENGUE 92 (Three deaths) 19
* CHIKUNGUNYA 158 1