Emergency meeting held to discuss Chikungunya in Mysore

Mysore, Jun 15 (UNI) An emergency meeting of district level health officers was held at Mysore Zilla Panchayat office here today to discuss the issue of a 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 of the situation on the outbreak of 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 the action taken in the various villages to the higher officials concerned 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 hygienic drinking water to the villagers.

Besides, he asked the Women and Child welfare department to deploy Anganwadi workers in the villages to create awareness among the villagers on use of clean drinking water and cleanliness in the villages.

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

Meanwhile, the district administration had taken up medical relief on a war footing in the areas where the suspected cases were reported. Blood samples of patients have been sent to Bangalore for testing. Medicines were available in the Primary Health Centres in the district and as many as eight teams of doctors with paramedical staff had been deployed in the affected villages, he added.

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