In Chennai, 2 dengue cases reported and GCC put on alert now
Posted on: 06/Oct/2018 10:04:17 AM
This piece of news would certainly bring huge shock on the faces of many Chennai residents. The news that has come out is two dengue cases have been reported in the Chennai city and this has put GCC or Greater Chennai Corporation on alert.
It is revealed that workers were employed to carry out cleanliness and source reduction activities in the neighbourhood on a war footing. This was after the second dengue case was detected in West Mambalam. The first dengue case was found earlier this week when a person returned from Kerala and that person had fever. He got tested at the primary health centre belonging to the civic body and his reports confirmed that he had dengue as he tested positive for dengue. In another case in West Mambalam, a 45 year old person tested positive for dengue after being admitted to Sri Ramachandra Medical College and this took place on Friday. As a result the sanitary inspector, zonal health officer plus others like conservancy workers visited the streets in West Mambalam belonging to the above mentioned two dengue affected persons.
A worker spoke about tyres, plastic containers, coconut shells and other items capable of holding rain water that were destroyed. It is known that aedes mosquito is responsible for dengue fever and aedes mosquitoes breed in the stagnant fresh water.
A resident belonging to West Mambalam expressed his thoughts. He spoke about how the conservancy workers are not working every other day but they work only once in 3 days. He later spoke about how these workers came and removed all the garbage that was present in many spots. The buckets and tubs holding rain water that were breeding grounds for aedes mosquitoes were removed by these workers. He showed his displeasure regarding the preventive actions not taken by the officials immediately but action taken only after the reporting of the dengue cases. This West Mambalam resident finally threw light on spraying of lavicide and fogging and that wanted those to be carried out atleast 4 times in a month.
As per a health officer it is now clear that preventive steps are being taken across the zone. The official later spoke about how the Kodambakkam zone was divided into 151 sectors and how all the health workers and sanitary inspectors were given instructions to carry out the source reduction activities in atleast 80 houses. He finally highlighted about the work to prevent water stagnation and spraying of mosquito larvicidal oil that is taking place across the zone.
