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Govt acts fast to check dengue
Alerted by increasing incidence of dengue cases, the Telangana government has appointed Superintendent of Fever Hospital Dr K Shankar as nodal officer to monitor and check the incidence of dengue in the state. Health Minister Dr C Laxma Reddy held a review meeting on the situation at the Secretariat on Monday.
- Appoints nodal officer
- Special dengue wards
- To purchase 12 platelet separators
- 240 dengue positive cases so far
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Hyderabad: Alerted by increasing incidence of dengue cases, the Telangana government has appointed Superintendent of Fever Hospital Dr K Shankar as nodal officer to monitor and check the incidence of dengue in the state. Health Minister Dr C Laxma Reddy held a review meeting on the situation at the Secretariat on Monday.
Commissioner of Family Welfare Buddha Prakash, Director of Medical Education Dr M Ramani, Director of Health Dr Lalitha Kumari, Commissioner of Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad Dr K Veenakumari, CEO of Aarogysri Health Care Trust Dr M Chandrasekhar, Managing Director of Telangana Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation Dr Venugopal Rao took part in the meeting.
Out of 1540 suspected cases, 240 cases were found to be dengue positive since January 2015. Speaking to The Hans India, Dr K Shankar said that to avoid panic situation of dengue and to provide special care and round the clock monitoring, special fever wards would be set up in all the hospitals.
“There are no certain guidelines for dengue fever treatment in the Aarogysri Scheme. A committee will be constituted and it will take expert opinion to frame guidelines. Up to 20,000 platelet count without bleeding, a clinician can judge that the patient needs no platelet boost-up. And up to 30,000 platelet count with bleeding the patient requires platelets,” he said.
Dr K Shankar also said the government would procure 12 numbers of platelet separators within a week. Dengue is a notified disease, so private and corporate hospitals should inform the government these cases and without informing they cannot go for treatment, he said and added that the government had instructed all the District Medical and Health Officers to get information on the cases.“The government is ready to supply platelets more frequently and technicians would be recruited through outsourcing,” Dr Shankar said.
