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Less mosquito bites in 2013
Less Mosquito bites in 2013, Dengue and malaria cases, GHMC. As per the directions, the civic body started a special drive to check the vector borne diseases in all circles.
There is a considerable drop in the number of dengue and malaria cases compared to last year. Senior entomology wing attributes this reduction to the massive awareness campaigns and various measures undertaken, to check the menace of mosquitoes
A total of 524 cases of dengue were reported between January and November 2012. In comparison, only 78 such cases were accounted for in 2013. Similar is the case with Malaria, which saw a meteoric fall from 424 cases in 2012 to 129 in 2013.
According to statistics, the civic body had outsourced 2,200 personnel equipped with 134 fogging machines, 11 atop vehicles, 500 sprayers and nearly 100 pumps.
Currently, there are 36 areas in the city which have been identified as high-risk areas for dengue and malaria. These include Circle Eight areas of Jambagh, Gunfoundry, Sultan Bazar, Himayatnagar, Barkatpura, Kacheguda, Golnaka and Amberpet. The areas also include locations around Satam Talab in Circle Seven like Langer House, Tolichowki, Nanalnagar, Ahmednagar, Chintalbasti, Vijayanagar Colony, Mallepally and Red Hills.
This year, the GHMC health and sanitation chief directed chief entomologists to display flexi banners at all the medical camps for easy identification and creation of awareness about the operations.
As per the directions, the civic body started a special drive to check the vector borne diseases in all circles, under the GHMC limits. The activities in the special drive had health camps and disease surveillance, which were supposed to be monitored by Urban Health Posts (UHP), Special Public Health Officers (SPHO’s), Assistant Medical Officer of Health (AMOHs), etc. Key focus was given to anti-larval operations which were meant to be supervised by Assistant Entomologists (AE) from each circle.
For the entomology department, this is indeed a huge success. Entomologists at each circle confirmed that there was an increase in dengue and malaria cases as the larva of mosquitoes became immune to smoke machines, and had come up with a serious anti-larval operation. According to Rakesh Kumar, entomology field assistant, Kapra Circle, “We understood that fogging machines and DDT became less dependable. The machines were not helping in serving its true purpose but were in turn causing allergies to asthma patients. We went on spreading awareness in every household. To kill the larva, we then started using Temephos and Baytex sprays. We believe that we have considerably reduced the number of mosquitoes in Kapra Circle. We have nearly eight teams who visit 200 households.”
