Health officials designated to supervise 3day special campaign

: Selected healthcare officials have been designated to supervise and monitor preventive measures in the six districts that are worst affected by seasonal diseases, during a threeday special campaign between March 21 and 23, an official said.

Healthcare officials will be stationed under the “swasthya dal aapke dwar”--health team at your doorstep—campaign in the six districts, including Alwar, Kota, Ajmer, Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Bharatpur that are reeling under seasonal diseases between March 21 and March 23, said state additional director (rural health) Dr Ravi Prakash.

On March 7, the three-day special campaign was planned for six districts, which on March 13, was decided to be extended across the state, he said.

Officials of the integrated disease surveillance programme and national vector borne disease control programme cell, will be compile division-wise reports every day at the state level at Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Bharatpur divisions between March 21 and 23, officials said.

Health department data showed the six districts have recorded the maximum number of cases of H1N1 virus or swine flu between January 1 and March 14.

Alwar recorded 44 swine flu positive cases and five deaths, Kota recorded 23 cases and five deaths, Ajmer recorded 47 and eight deaths, Jhunjhunu 19 and 2 deaths, Sikar recorded 17cases of H1N1 virus and two deaths while five people tested positive for the H1NI virus and two persons died of the vector-borne disease in Bharatpur.

Jaipur recorded 762 positive cases and 30 deaths from January 1 to March 14, 2018.

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