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Karnataka strategy to fight JE in state
A MICRO-PLAN was chalked out to fight the dreaded Japanese encephalitis (JE) in the coming season, on the concluding day of the two-day district-level training workshop on vector-borne diseases here at the GSVM Medical College. Master trainers and administrative health officials of Gonda, Balrampur, Unnao, Faizabad and Kanpur Nagar have stressed on four major points, on the pattern of Karnataka.
A MICRO-PLAN was chalked out to fight the dreaded Japanese encephalitis (JE) in the coming season, on the concluding day of the two-day district-level training workshop on vector-borne diseases here at the GSVM Medical College.
Master trainers and administrative health officials of Gonda, Balrampur, Unnao, Faizabad and Kanpur Nagar have stressed on four major points, on the pattern of Karnataka.
Now, paramedical and medical staff at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Community Health Centres (CHCs) will be trained henceforth and the health department will ensure all requisite medicines at these centres to avert any panic condition like the previous year when, according to experts, 90 per cent of mortality in the state following the outbreak of JE took place due to transportation.
On the final day of the workshop, master trainers put up the example of Karnataka where the health department successfully brought down the mortality rate from 24 per cent to 4 per cent by focusing on four aspects.
Talking to the HT, Community Medicine Department head Dr Suresh Chandra said, “The four things to be activated in the State are behavioral change communication (BCC), proper management in treatment, crisis management and proper reference.”
Dr Chandra said the health department would ensure availability of basic drugs like paracetamol, dexamethasone and Menitol at PHCs and CHCs and the health staff would be trained to manage patients suffering from high fever and, for this, a referral system had been designed.
Deputy chief medical officer, Kanpur Nagar, Dr MC Agarwal said, “Like Karnataka our emphasis will be on bringing down the mortality rate due to JE to 3-4 per cent in the State.”
