At least 32 dengue cases have been confirmed in Gurugram till Wednesday this year so far.
The figure was 22 last year. There have, however, been no deaths recorded yet.
Figures shared by the district administration revealed that the district had recorded 93 cases of dengue in 2018, 66 cases in 2017, 86 in 2016 and the figure was 451 in 2015.
Likewise the district has recorded 4 cases of malaria this year till Friday.
In 2019, 15 cases of malaria had emerged, in 2018 the figure was 30, in 2017 around 48 cases of malaria came to light, the figure was 38 in 2016 while 67 cases of malaria came forward in 2015.
Meanwhile, the district health facilities have not recorded Chikungunya cases since 2018. The district malaria office, which is the vector control department, has initiated various curative and preventive steps to control the spread of the disease.
The health officials informed that they have visited nearly 11 lakhs houses in Gurugram district since June during the survey and notices were issued to 3,708 persons whose houses got mosquito larvae. It has also identified 250 places in the city which are congenial for breeding of dengue larvae, said an official.
The Officials also said that to control the spread of the disease, the department is spreading awareness through campaigns, SMS, fogging, setting up a separate dengue ward in the civil hospital, among others.
“We have constituted a team, along with the staff of the Municipal Corporation; they have surveyed 11 lakh houses since June this year, while more than 6 lakh houses were surveyed last year. We are also serving notices the house owner where mosquito larvae are found. A team of the health department inspects those houses again. If we find larvae again, the MCG fines the owner by issuing notice,” said chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Virendra Yadav.
Yadav informed that gambusia fish is very effective in preventing mosquitoes from growing.
Keeping this in mind, the Health Department has built two new hatcheries this time in the Primary Health Center Wazirabad and Pataudi Hospital premises. Combining these, the department has three hatcheries.
“A fish hatchery already remains in the district malaria office complex. He also informed that out of 153 waterbodeis i.e. reservoirs located in the district and filling them with 117 gambusia fish which eat the mosquito larvae
The Municipal Corporation and Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) — have also been directed by the Health department to introduce the fish in water-logged areas.