41 dengue cases from Sangrur dist in 45 days
Monday, 28/10/2013
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Sangrur : In the past 45 days, as many as 41 confirmed cases of dengue fever have been reported from various parts of Sangrur district to the health authorities mainly by the DMC hospital, Ludhiana, and Government Medical College, Patiala.
However, a pathologist at the Civil Hospital, Sangrur, Dr Inderjit Singla, said despite the Mac Elisa test of blood samples of 28 suspected dengue cases at the hospital in the past one month, no one had tested positive for dengue.
Likewise, Dr Jyoti Kapoor, a pathologist at the Civil Hospital, Malerkotla, said they had tested only two cases for dengue at the hospital, but both had tested negative for the disease. Surprisingly, out of the 41 cases reported in Sangrur district, as many as 13 dengue cases were from various localities of Malerkotla town and three from the nearby Jamalpura village. Dr Kapoor said this meant that in the fear of contracting the disease, patients directly visited Ludhiana or Patiala hospitals instead of visiting the local Civil Hospital.
Besides these patients from Malerkotla, seven cases from Sangrur, six from Ahmedgarh and three cases from Dhuri have been reported to the district health authorities so far by hospitals in Ludhiana, Patiala and Banur. The remaining cases reported to the authorities were from Kup Kalan, Issapur, Khadyal, Gharachon, Ballran and Rurka villages.
Sources said the maximum number of dengue cases (21) had been reported by the DMC hospital, Ludhiana. They said 11 cases had been reported by Government Medical College, Patiala.
District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Surinder Singla said they had taken several steps to check the spread of dengue in the district.
He said they had issued instructions to the municipal council authorities of the district to carry out fogging in their respective areas regularly.
The DHO said whenever a person tested positive for dengue, a survey was conducted in his residential area, tablets were distributed, medicine was sprayed in the area besides creating awareness about prevention of the disease among people.
