Public healthcare falls sick in Adilabad

Public healthcare falls sick in Adilabad
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Public healthcare falls sick in Adilabad. With abysmal state of sanitation coupled with poor medical care facilities, the public healthcare remains grim and alarming in Adilabad district, especially in the Agency as most of the people were down with either from malaria or diarrhoea.

Adilabad: With abysmal state of sanitation coupled with poor medical care facilities, the public healthcare remains grim and alarming in Adilabad district, especially in the Agency as most of the people were down with either from malaria or diarrhoea.

Two students are forced to sleep on the same bed at a government hostel in Adilabad

Two patients are forced to share a single bed in the 30-bed Bellampally government hospital and some students of an Ashram School in Utnoor mandal were compelled to walk with high fever a couple of kilometers to get medical attention.

A sizable number of people from Madhavaigudem under Rebbena mandal queued up before Bellampally government hospital in the last three days. With no adequate number of beds available in the hospital, the staff had to accommodate two patients on one bed. Meanwhile, Madhavaigudem villagers alleged that there was no one to look after the sanitation measures in their village.

Elsewhere in Kannepally under Kouthala mandal, the situation is similar as most of the villagers are affected with viral fever and rheumatic problems. Around 10 inmates of Luxettipet Ashram school under Utnoor mandal had to walk a couple of kilometers to get treatment for fever at Shyampur Primary Health Centre.

Meanwhile, several villages in Rebbena mandal have been reeling under viral fevers and diarrhoea due to lack of sanitation. Despite, the medical and health wing claims that it had taken umpteen steps to curb the spread of epidemics; the situation appears to be far from satisfactory.

Of course, not all the blame should be attributed to the health department. There needs to be some coordination between the health, Rural Water Supply and the gram panchayats to ensure the supply of protected drinking water and keep up of the surroundings clean in rural areas.

According to DM&HO Rukminamma, Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF) has been launched in the district to reduce the childhood mortality, besides organising awareness programmes about the malady in association with the RWS and Asha workers and the panchayat officials.

On its part, the district health officials made 4 lakh oral rehydration solution (ORS) packets available across the district besides, 3.80 lakh zinc supplement tablets. Speaking to The Hans India on Thursday, district malaria officer Dr Alaham Ravi said, “Since January, 191 cases of malaria have been registered.

ACM spraying has been undertaken to control the mosquito menace in as many as 610 villages with a population of 2.50 lakh.” The administration has identified 754 wells to introduce Gambusia affinis, also known as mosquito fish, a bio-control to lower the mosquito populations, he said, stating that they also made RDT kits available in all mandals.

However, the authorities tried to downplay the outbreak of epidemics. The sources said that malaria is rampant in Sirpur, Sirpur (T), Wankidi, Jainoor, Tiryani, Asifabad and Kagaznagar mandals, while the number of diarrhoea and rheumatic cases is significant in the region. Moreover, it’s learnt that authorities didn’t take up chlorination of water bodies in many villages. As a result the villagers had to consume contaminated water.

By Adepu Mahender

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