COMBATING THE MOSQUITO CHALLENGE
What Delhi — both state health department and civic agencies — must do to prevent an outbreak.
GET THE NUMBERS
RIGHT: Instead of playing down the numbers, record all cases must to quickly identify the transmission hotspots.
OUTBREAK PREDICTION:
Issue outbreak alerts and detection through coordinated disease and mosquito-breeding surveillance.
AWARENESS
CAMPAIGNS: Use mass and social media messaging to encourage people to lower risk by cleaning mosquito-breeding spots and adopting personal protection, such as using mosquito nets, insect repellents and loose clothes that cover the body.
MOSQUITO CONTROL:
Swiftly mosquito-control measures, including checking potential breeding spots at home.
TEST AND TREAT: Testing for early diagnosis and quick referrals can help manage severe cases and lower death from dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome.
CREATING INFRASTRUCTURE: Apart from adding beds, health personnel and medical services need to be reoriented to deal with outbreaks.
Dengue carrier: Aedes aegypti mosquito can breed in a film of water and breeding continues indoors through the winter