If you’re affected by frequent complications, muscle or joint ache, nausea, vomiting, and excessive fever, don’t be complacent. That’s as a result of instances of dengue are on the rise in Uttar Pradesh. Over 9,000 instances have been recorded this season and the depend goes up. The UP authorities has launched a drive to fight the dengue menace and adopted a number of different measures, however the efforts are but to deliver change to the grim situation.
Many of the sufferers have examined optimistic for the DEN-2 variant—one of many fast-multiplying strains of dengue. Recently, officers despatched over 40 samples from the Gautam Buddh Nagar for genome sequencing and all examined optimistic for DEN-2.
UP has witnessed no less than eight deaths and greater than 9,000 instances of dengue this season. With greater than 690 instances reported, Gautam Buddh Nagar (GBN) tops the listing of districts the place the unfold of dengue is alarmingly excessive. So far GBN has recorded 699 instances of dengue, which is increased than another district within the state, a well being division official instructed Information18.
“Recently we sent around 45 cases from GBN for genome sequencing and surprisingly all tested positive for DEN-2 strain. In total, around 250 samples from different districts of UP were sent for genome sequencing out of which around 150 tested positive for DEN-2 strain. We are sending more samples in order to ascertain the strain of the dengue which will help in planning medication accordingly,” stated a senior well being officer.
GBN is adopted by Ghaziabad, which stood in second place on the subject of the variety of dengue instances, at 690. As per the information from the well being division, the district recorded 901 instances in 2022, a complete of 1,238 instances in 2021, and 88 instances in 2019.
With round 650 dengue instances reported, and one dying, Lucknow stood third, confirmed Ritu Srivastava, district malaria officer, well being division, UP.
Officials with the well being division stated that the luxury areas of the state capital are the worst affected, and surprisingly, within the densely populated elements, the impact of dengue is relatively much less.
As per the information from the National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control, ministry of well being and household welfare, Government of India, within the 12 months 2022, UP witnessed round 19,821 instances and no less than 33 deaths. In 2021, UP witnessed 29,750 instances and 29 deaths. And in 2020, the state recorded 3,715 instances and 5 deaths.
Dr Deepa Tyagi, director normal within the well being division of UP, instructed Information18 that the group of medical doctors works around the clock to fight dengue. “Since dengue generally attains its peak in the months of September and October, we have taken several measures to combat it. One of the biggest initiatives is that we have created a control room and have linked all the hospitals to it, making them all live through the CCTV cameras. Personally, I am monitoring all the hospitals and from here we can check each and every hospital in the state and ensure that the hospitals are equipped with all basic facilities and are attending to the patients well. We are checking if the state’s hospitals are equipped with beds or not, if the staff is attending to the patients or not, or if there are adequate numbers of beds available or not. This is all we can monitor directly,” she stated.
Dr Tyagi additionally stated that they’ve elevated surveillance, launched a unified portal, and distributed the password to all of the pathology labs to be able to guarantee real-time monitoring of the dengue figures. In any case reported, the CMOs of various districts might take mandatory measures to maintain a verify on the dengue outbreak of their respective areas.
“Other than this, we have also increased the number of blood collection counters at the OPDs, have laid down the admission criterion, have introduced active management of beds, and have deputed counsellors to counsel suspected dengue patients,” she added.
