India Encephalitis 2018; 702 fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

Link to 2017 thread: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/...132-fatalities

UP declares year-long war on encephalitis
By Aman Sharma

The UP government is gearing up to wage a war against the biggest child killers in the state - Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).

It has prepared a one-year plan for 2018 beginning January 1 which envisages early vaccination, segregating pigs from affected habitation, rushing immediate response teams for fogging to stop outbreak, encouraging consumption of water only from an 'India Mark-2' tap or hand pump, and convincing parents not to let their ki ..
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[Ronan Kelly]

JE not behind Khurda child?s death: Govt
By Express News Service | Published: 23rd January 2018 02:01 AM |

Last Updated: 23rd January 2018 07:03 AM | A+A A- |

BHUBANESWAR: THE State Government has denied Japanese Encephalitis (JE) as the reason behind the death of a nine-year-old girl from Khurda. The child died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the Capital last month, prompting the Health and Family Welfare Minister Pratap Jena to order a probe.
A five-member team of specialists was constituted to investigate into the alleged JE death of the child from Bhusandhapur area.

Special Secretary in the Health and Family Welfare Department Dr KC Dash said though initially it was suspected to be a case of JE as per Elisa test, the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test, which is considered more authentic, found it JE negative.

?The PCR test of two other children, who were suspected to have been affected in the first week of last month, was also negative. They have been discharged after treatment. The Khurda child died because she was brought to hospital very late,? he claimed.

Since there are several types of encephalitis, which lead to acute inflammation of the brain, Dr Dash explained that the child might have died of any other encephalitis, but it was not certainly JE.
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http://www.newindianexpress.com/stat...t-1761727.html

[Ronan Kelly]

MN/BSN/2018/06/0149 Manipur Bishnupur Japanese
Encephalitis
01 case 00
07-02-18 12-02-18 Under
Surveillance
Cases reported from Village Kwatka Khunou,
PHC Moirang. District RRT investigated the
outbreak. House to house survey done. 06 Blood
sample tested and sent to State referral Lab IDSP
JNIMS Manipur. One sample was confirmed JE
positive. Health camp organized in the school and
all cases treated symptomatically. Health
education given.

http://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/062018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

MH/THN/2018/07/0186 Maharashtra Thane
Japanese Encephalitis ?
07 00 14-02-18 17-02-18
Under
Surveillance
Cases reported from Village Tadwadi Vadavali
Section Ambernath R. District RRT investigated
the outbreak. House to house survey done. One
case was J.E positive by IgM Elisa. Fogging and spraying done. All cases treated symptomatically.
Health education given

http://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/072018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

Kerala
One JE case reported from Thuravoor south, Alappuzha District.

http://dhs.kerala.gov.in/docs/transfer/addlph/drcd_07042018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

Kerala
AES Death: PKD: Mufeeda,10, F, D.o.D: 05.04.2018, Kanjirappuzha

http://dhs.kerala.gov.in/docs/transfer/addlph/drcd_09042018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

Acute Encephalitis Syndrome		3	Female			Alive	March 24, 2018 Time : 11:28 am	City : Bijnor Distt. : BIJNOUR State : UTTAR PRADESH
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome		120	Male			Dead	March 24, 2018 Time : 11:27 am	City : Bijnor Distt. : BIJNOUR State : UTTAR PRADESH
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome		48	Female			Alive	March 24, 2018 Time : 11:21 am	City : Bijnor Distt. : BIJNOUR State : UTTAR PRADESH
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome		156	Male			Alive	March 24, 2018 Time : 11:20 am	City : Bijnor Distt. : BIJNOUR State : UTTAR PRADESH

http://idsurv.org/display-data.php

Ages are in months - Ro

[Ronan Kelly]

Dying children, stalled cases, shortage of staff: Nothing has changed at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur
April 13, 2018

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net

When more than 23 children lost their lives in Gorakhpur based Baba Raghav Das Government Medical College in August last year, many believed that the government would take necessary steps to prevent such events in the future.

But it seems that the administration has learnt no lessons from the previous incident. In the first three months of 2018, more than 500 children, neonates, and infants have been declared dead at the BRD Medical College.

This number was revealed by sources at the Medical College, as College authorities and the administration have stopped providing death figures for the past several months. When contacted, authorities refused to agree or disagree with the numbers.

According to the latest numbers, about 330 children lost their lives in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) until March 31. Moreover, about 175 kids were declared dead in Pediatric ICU and about 33 kids dead in the encephalitis ward between January 1 and March 31.
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A comparison with the previous death records of BRD Medical College shows that the numbers in the first three months of this year are comparatively less than those of the previous years.
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In the first three months of 2017, the BRD Medical College recorded 216 deaths in PICU, 401 deaths in NICU and 32 deaths from encephalitis.
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The BRD Medical College has stopped providing the official number of dead children. Earlier, it used to give out the numbers in press releases to media houses.
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http://twocircles.net/2018apr13/422526.html

Comment: Information on encephalitis cases and fatalities in India has been difficult to come by this year. At the local level, BRD has stopped releasing its figures. At the national level, the NVBDCP has not published any monthly reports this year on its website - a highly unusual occurrence. - Ro

[Ronan Kelly]

AS/DBG/2018/10/295 Assam Dibrugarh
Japanese
Encephalitis 21 cases 03 fatalities 03-01-18
Under Surveillance
Cases of fever with altered sensorium reported from
several Villages and PHC Barbaruah, Khowang,
Lahoal, Naharani, Panitola. District RRT investigated
the outbreak. House to house fever survey done. Out
of 21 samples tested, 4 were positive for JE (IgM
ELISA). All cases treated symptomatically. Fogging
done and health education given.

http://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/102018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

BRD will be ready by June 10 Pre-fabricated ward of 79 beds
Publish Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:33 PM (IST)

Gorakhpur: Dr. KK Gupta, Director General, Medical Education, Uttar Pradesh, said that better treatment will be done for the treatment of patients of Inseflitis in BRD Medical College. Arrangements for fire handling will be strong. The fire fighting system is being further refined.

Dr Gupta, who arrived at the BRD Medical College, was interacting with reporters after the inspection of Nehru Hospital. He said that till June 10, construction of pre-fabricated ward of 79 beds will be completed on the upper floor of the 100-bed sophisticated ward. It will be easy to treat serious patients. Renovation work of pediatric ICU will be completed by June 25 on the ground floor of 100 bed ward. The newborn infant care unit will be renewed in October itself. DG said on Monday to control the fire in the City Scan Center, that now the staff of the medical college is capable of controlling fire incidents. He praised the employees for this. Said that the workers were trained to guard against fire by organizing the Makkadil in the past. Further events like this will continue.

DG visited the first medical college before visiting Nehru Hospital. Take stock of the construction work in the college and take stock of the kitchen. In the waiting area of the hospital, instructions for placing dustbin for patients and tumadars. Especially in the 100 bed ward made for the Insephlitis patients, there is a system to see. On this occasion, Principal Dr. Ganesh Kumar and other officers were also present.

By Jagran

https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/gorakhpur-city-brd-medical-college-will-be-ready-by-june-10-prefabricated-ward-of-79-beds-17836826.html

[Ronan Kelly]

REPORTSUNICEF India praises Yogi govt for immunising every child in the state against Japanese Encephalitis
BySanghamitraPosted on April 26, 2018

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has applauded the Uttar Pradesh government led by CM Yogi Adityanath for successfully immunising all children of the state against Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome. The government of UP has been carrying out the immunisation and awareness drive under the flagship ?Dastak? campaign.
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A video released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare states that, under the Dastak programme, Asha workers visited 26,33,837 households for awareness drives and 32,03,785 children under the age of 15 years were vaccinated against the disease.

http://www.opindia.com/?p=104684

[Ronan Kelly]

MH/BNR/2018/13/401 Maharashtra Bhandara Japanese
Encephalitis 04 00 14-03-18 Under
Control
Cases of fever with altered sensorium reported from
Village Ghodezari, PHC/SC Murmadi, Block
Lakhani. District RRT investigated the outbreak.
House to house fever survey done. 5 Serum Sample
sent to GMC Nagpur for JE and 4 samples were found
positive. Health camp organized in the school and all
cases treated symptomatically. Sanitation Campaign
and Dry Day Activity conducted in village. IEC done
on Vector Borne Diseases and their prevention.

http://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/132018.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

http://nvbdcp.gov.in/Doc/je-aes.pdf

This is the first NVBDCP report of the year. Weekly IDSP report has reported 3 fatal cases in Assam (post #9). Fatal cases of AES have also been reported from Odisha (1) post #2 and Kerala (1) post #6. Non fatal cases have also been reported from Kerala (post #5) and Maharashtra (post#12). Why these cases are not included in the NVBDCP report I do not know. - Ro

[Ronan Kelly]

Uttar Pradesh
Faulty vaccination, late diagnosis, ?fudged data? ? demons that still haunt Gorakhpur kids
ANANYA BHARDWAJ 6 May, 2018

Encephalitis immunisation is not handled by experts, rendering it useless many times. Doctors also say patients reach them too late, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
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Is immunisation not working?

The case of Kishan and his son is not isolated ? children across Uttar Pradesh have been dying of encephalitis despite being vaccinated. The state government claims 90 per cent of children have been covered under vaccination programmes, but the number of suspected and confirmed cases reported at hospitals in Gorakhpur alone has remained pretty much constant over the last few years.

In 2016, 426 children died of suspected or confirmed encephalitis at the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) ward of the BRD Medical College alone, while in 2017, the number was 379.

In almost 20 per cent of these cases, the children had already received vaccinations, a doctor at the medical college said.
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Fudged numbers?

From 2006 to 2010, mass immunisation campaigns were carried out for children up to 15 years of age. But a study done by doctors at the BRD Medical College in 2016 showed that only 2 per cent of children were actually vaccinated.

?These numbers are more on paper than a fact. In many cases, they give just one injection and do not care to give the booster dose, which defeats the purpose of vaccination,? alleged Dr Kafeel Khan, former nodal officer of the AES ward.

?The volunteers fudge numbers, and we come to know of it only when the kids are admitted to the hospital with symptoms of encephalitis despite vaccinations. In most cases, we see that the people who hold camps do not reach out to villagers to convince them to get immunised. What is the purpose of this exercise when a proper dose is not even given to the kids? How do they expect them to work?? he alleged.
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https://theprint.in/governance/vaccination-and-other-demons-that-haunt-the-children-of-gorakhpur/55572/

Odisha
DELAY TO DISPOSE JE DEATH?S PLAINT DECRIED
Tuesday, 08 May 2018 | PNS | Bhubaneswar | in Bhubaneswar


The Right to Food Campaign has once again urged the Odisha State Food Commission (OSFC) to conduct an inquiry into its complaint of death of 70 tribal children due to spread of Japanese Encephalitis in Malkangiri and the administration?s negligence at the earliest.

?I had filed a complaint with the State Food Commission seeking an inquiry into death of 70 tribal children due to outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis, maladministration, collapse of health delivery service, food insecurity in Malkangiri district.

Though more than a year has passed, the commission has not informed me if inquiry has started or outcome of inquiry, if completed,? Campaign convenor Pradip Pradhan wrote to the OSFC Chairman.
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/delay-to-dispose-je-deaths-plaint-decried.html

[Ronan Kelly]

tanford University to partner with UP to combat chronic diseases
ANI | May 10,2018 , 11:32 AM IST

#BIG-IMAGE##Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) : Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Wednesday informed that the United States Stanford University will come in a partnership with the state to combat disease like Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).

Singh, who headed the high-powered delegation of top state officials to the United States, said this in a press briefing here."Stanford University will come in a partnership with us to combat disease like Japanese Encephalitis (JE) & Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Uttar Pradesh," Singh said.
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http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/National/2018-05-10/Stanford-University-to-partner-with-UP-to-combat-chronic-diseases/380204