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Administration fails to contain chikungunya
Thursday May 4 2006 10:43 IST
<SMALL>GULBARGA: Despite making tall claims the district administration have failed to contain the spreading viral epidemic chikungunya.
People in taluks bordering other states have been moving either to Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh for treatment in large numbers while the primary health centres and community health centres in the district have failed to provide required treatment due to shortage of doctors and paucity of medicines.
The failure to contain the epidemic is evident from his own submissions of the chief executive officer Pankaj Kaumar Pandey of the zilla panchayat. Out of the 829 villages affected by the epidemic the administration has carried out three rounds of fogging in only 125 villages. The fogging has not at all taken place in more than 400 villages!
House fogging has been hardly done in any village though officially, it has been claimed that three rounds of fogging has been completed in 125 villages. There is no explantation whatsoever why it has not done even a single round of fogging in more than 400 villages.
The authorities have clarified that only chikungunya was prevailing in the district and there are no incidence of leptospirosis popularly known as rat fever.</SMALL>
Administration fails to contain chikungunya
Thursday May 4 2006 10:43 IST
<SMALL>GULBARGA: Despite making tall claims the district administration have failed to contain the spreading viral epidemic chikungunya.
People in taluks bordering other states have been moving either to Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh for treatment in large numbers while the primary health centres and community health centres in the district have failed to provide required treatment due to shortage of doctors and paucity of medicines.
The failure to contain the epidemic is evident from his own submissions of the chief executive officer Pankaj Kaumar Pandey of the zilla panchayat. Out of the 829 villages affected by the epidemic the administration has carried out three rounds of fogging in only 125 villages. The fogging has not at all taken place in more than 400 villages!
House fogging has been hardly done in any village though officially, it has been claimed that three rounds of fogging has been completed in 125 villages. There is no explantation whatsoever why it has not done even a single round of fogging in more than 400 villages.
The authorities have clarified that only chikungunya was prevailing in the district and there are no incidence of leptospirosis popularly known as rat fever.</SMALL>