Dengue is continuing to hit the residents of Doon valley. On Friday, 12 new cases of the dreaded vector borne disease were reported by the district health authorities.
With these cases, the number of dengue affected patients in Dehradun has jumped to 545. Out of these patients 531 patients are residents of Dehradun while 14 belong to other districts. The special dengue ards in GDMC hospital, Gandhi Centenary Eye hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospitals have become full of patients and in GDMC hospital the authorities are forced to occupy other wards to accommodate surging patient flow. The District Vector Borne Diseases Officer, Subhash Joshi said that teams of health department and Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) are visiting the affected areas and activities like fogging and spread of insecticides are being undertaken apart from spreading awareness on preventive measures to be adopted for the disease. He said that people should ensure that the breeding places of mosquitoes inside their homes and vicinity are destroyed.
Joshi added that since Aedes mosquito, the vector of the disease bites during day time it is advisable that everyone should wear full sleeve clothes to reduce exposure of their body for the mosquito to bite.
