AGRA : More than a dozen cases of dengue have been found in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra as the Firozabad district of the state continues to battle the mosquito-borne disease and a viral fever outbreak, a senior medical officer has said. “Out of the 16 confirmed cases, six patients have been admitted to different hospitals of the city, while the rest of them are at their respective homes. Some patients have also recovered and no deaths have been reported till now,” Agra’s chief medical officer (CMO) Arun Kumar Srivastava told ANI on Friday.
Kumar also listed the steps being taken by the district administration, including door-to-door surveys and fogging, to tackle the spread of dengue in the area. “We are carrying out the door-to-door surveys as per the instructions of Uttar Pradesh health minister Jai Pratap Singh and all the suspect cases are being immediately treated,
Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers have been directed to keep a regular check on the patients and bring them to the hospital in case of an emergency, Kumar added. He also said that fogging is being carried out regularly in the medical college and the water is being regularly monitored to avoid the spread of dengue. “The municipality also is on high alert and a regular cleanliness drive is being conducted,” he said.
Firozabad, around 50km from Agra, has been battling the outbreak of dengue and deadly viral fever for the past three weeks now, with most of the victims being children.
The government has said that 57 people, mostly children, have died due to the diseases so far and 404 patients are being treated in the medical college hospital. “As many as 120 new patients were admitted on Friday while 102 people were discharged after recovery,” Sangeeta Aneja, the principal of the medical college said, adding that of the 195 tests done for dengue, 62 have been found positive.
