Thursday, September 22, 2011: The District Medical Officer Dr.
Mohanan said that the recent situation due to the outbreak of contagious
diseases was fully under control.
Speaking to the reporters here on Thursday, DMO added that a team of
health officers have been dispatched to the areas for finding out the
persons who had not undergone treatment.
Special wards will be opened at the Koyilandy, Kuppadi areas where the fever outbreak was mostly reported.
Meanwhile the district collectors have called for a meeting of the
panchayat secretaries in Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod districts for
chalking out various steps to check the spread of various diseases.
Several suspected cases of cholera have been reported in the
district. According to the recent reports, the number of patients being
hospitalized with dengue, yellow fever, cholera and rat fever in the
state is on the rise.
Until now 36 persons have died of rat fever in Kerala. In Kottayam
around 100 persons have been admitted to several hospitals with yellow
fever.
Dengue has the symptoms of sudden high fever and severe headache,
pain behind the eyes and nausea. The Health Services director has warned
against washing and bathing in murky waters and has instructed the use
of gloves and socks for animal caretakers and agricultural workers to
prevent the spread of rat fever.
They have also been directed to take a weekly preventive medicine,
which is available at the primary health centres, free of cost. The
symptoms of rat fever are high fever, headache, body ache, red eyes and
muscle cramps.
The preventive measures aimed at mosquito control include destruction
of mosquito breeding spots such as broken vessels, bottles, coconut
shells, tyre, garden pots, sheaths of plants, hollows of trees and even
the coconut shells used for collecting rubber latex, which will collect
water in them.
To prevent the spread of epidemics, patients are advised to use handkerchiefs while coughing and sneezing.
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