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No dengue, swine flu cases in Secunderabad Cantonment?
Is Secunderabad Cantonment area free from dengue, swine flu, diphtheria, malaria and other diseases? It appears so because there is no record of any such cases having been reported.
Hyderabad: Is Secunderabad Cantonment area free from dengue, swine flu, diphtheria, malaria and other diseases? It appears so because there is no record of any such cases having been reported.
There are about 100 hospitals in the cantonment area, including the Cantonment General Hospital (CGH) and five dispensaries that come under the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) but none of the hospitals share data with the District Medical and Health Office (DMHO).
According to the Cantonments Act, 2006, the Senior Executive Medical Officer (SEMO) is expected to send a monthly report of the cases to the SCB which in turn is supposed to share the data with the DMHO. Mallikarjuna Rao, a resident of Picket says, “There is no mechanism in place at the SCB office for sharing data with the DMHO.
There should be a provision for a seat for the SEMO and Health Officer at the SCB office.” Ramesh KP, a health worker, says, “There is no data on the number of dengue cases in the Secunderabad Cantonment. Does that mean the whole area is free from dengue, swine flu and other diseases.”
When the question was posed to Dr K Manju Rani, medical superintendent, CGH, Bolarum, she said, “if any patient showed symptoms and was not responding to treatment, we refer the patient to Fever Hospital.”
She further added that the hospital refers 6-8 patients to Fever Hospital every month. However, once the patient is referred and it is established that he/she suffers from a particular disease, the SCB does not know about it.
Citizens of the cantonment are not even aware that there is a health officer, rues a medical staff of the Cantonment dispensary at Bowenpally.
An elected board member on condition of anonymity said that there was a need for the Chief Executive Officer of the SCB to generate reliable data on basic healthcare indicators. There was no effort for a fool-proof epidemiological study of every aspect of health.
Unless the issue of sharing data does not come onto the agenda of the SCB board meetings, there would be no progressive movement on this front, said A Asokan, a retired army officer.
