MNS:- Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad took a meeting to review the Dengue situation in Delhi & NCR Region on October 8, 2012.
In his opening remarks, Shri Azad expressed his concern at the increase in dengue cases in Delhi in the last week. He underlined the need for better hygiene and sanitation to prevent, among other things, breeding of mosquitoes. He called upon the Mayors and NDMC officials to undertake a special cleanliness drive. He also suggested for increase in sentinel surveillance sites and testing facilities in Government set up so that poor people do not face any difficulty.
After detailed discussion, the following decisions were taken in the meeting.
1. A detailed Action Plan for improved source reduction, sanitation, fogging, strengthening of diagnostic facilities and IEC activities will be prepared by the New Delhi Municipal Corporation and Municipal Corporations of South, East & North Delhi by 10th October. The Action Plan so prepared will be shared with the Government of India.
2. The action plan will be implemented from 11th October 2012. For this purpose all available domestic breeding checkers and sanitation workers are to be employed. For supervision of these activities, a composite team of Commissioner, a Medical officer and an Entomologist will be constituted in such a way so that the activities could be supervised by a team in NDMC as well as MCD areas every day.
3. The Swasth Bharat Programme on Doordarshsan National channel as well as regional DD channels will be utilized for spreading awareness about dengue including its prevention and control measures. Doordarshan officials will be approached to schedule spots, as early as possible on DD national Channel where the Health Minister, Principle Secretary, Mayors, Commissioners and public health experts of GNCT Delhi would be invited to participate in discussion and awareness generation about dengue.
4. Information about the diagnostic and treatment facilities in GNCT Delhi will be published through print media by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi.
5. Diagnostic Facilities in Delhi and NCR Region will be augmented as per assessed requirement. Required diagnostic kits (MAC ELISA) will be provided by Government of India. Additional requirement of diagnostic kits may immediately be intimated to Government of India by Delhi Govt.
6. Government of Haryana will fill up the vacant posts of Entomologist and increase the number of sentinel sites in Gurgaon region. Non-functional sentinel sites for dengue will also be immediately made functional.
7. For improving the case management, more training sessions would be organized by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India for the Medical Officers of Delhi, Haryana and UP as per their requirements.
The meeting was attended by Health & Family Welfare Ministers of Government of NCT of Delhi and Haryana, Mayor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation, Deputy Mayor of East Delhi Municipal Commissioner, Municipals Commissioners of South, East and North Delhi Municipal Corporations. Senior officials of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, Health & Family Welfare Departments of Government of NCT of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh also attended the meeting.
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