Mysore: Emergency meet to discuss Chikungunya

Mysore, Jun 15: An emergency meeting of district level health offices was held at Mysore Zilla Panchayat office here today to discuss the issue of large number of suspected Chikungunya and other cases in different parts of the district during last one week.

The meeting was chaired by the CEO of Zilla Panchyat Chinnappa Gowda who took to task the medical officers for not informing the higher officials about the seriousness and situation on the outbreak of the suspected chikungunya in the villagers in Mysore Taluk and other parts of the district.

He asked the medical officers to inform the nature of the diseases and action taken in the various villages to the concern higher officials hereafter immediately.

He also instructed the taluk level executive officers to convene a meeting immediately to discuss the issues of health hazards and asked them to provide clean drinking water to the villagers.

He also asked the Women and Child department to deploy the Anganwadi workers in the villagers to give awareness among the villagers on the usage of clean drinking water and cleanliness in the villages.

Speaking on the occasions District Health Officer Rangaswamy said that fresh cases fever were reported from Periyapatna and H D Kote taluks and a surveillance taken up in this parts of taluk to know the number of cases. In H D Kote there 56 cases was reported of fever.

On the Sindhuvalli village cases of fever were not similar to the suspected cases of Chikungunya at Pushpagiri on the outskirts of the city.

Meanwhile the district administration has taken a medical attention on a war footing in the areas where the suspected cases reported. Samples of blood of patients have sent to the Bangalore for testing. Enough medicines was available in the Primary Health Centres in the district and as many as eight team of doctors with paramedical staff has been deployed in the affected villages for immediate treatments in their villages, he added.

UNI