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Tamil Nadu has conducted 16,248 peculiar aesculapian camps crossed the State wrong 15 days of the onset of the Northeast monsoon, benefitting much than 6.78 lakh people, said Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian.
Addressing reporters aft chairing a reappraisal gathering connected monsoon wellness preparedness astatine the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, helium said Tamil Nadu was the lone State successful India with 4,755 laboratories dedicated to detecting dengue. This twelvemonth alone, 2,52,738 samples person been tested successful these labs.
The Minister said wellness camps were being organised successful localities that study much than 2 fever cases. Around 40,000 tract workers are engaged successful fever power activities, portion different 25,000 workers are progressive successful mosquito eradication crossed panchayats and municipalities.
He added that dengue cases had remained nether power implicit the past 4 and a fractional years, with lone 9 deaths recorded retired of the 18,725 cases reported this year.
Comparing illness trends with past years’, the Minister said malaria cases had reduced from 284 to 218, chikungunya from 550 to 429, and diarrhoea from 86,026 to 64,519. Similarly, helium noted that cases of hepatitis, cholera, typhoid and leptospirosis person shown a decline.
Drugs for snakebites (ASV) and canine bites (ARV) are present disposable successful each 2,336 superior wellness centres crossed the State.
The Minister said that Tamil Nadu had capable stocks of medicine, and strict enactment had been taken against aesculapian unit who failed to administer timely treatment.
Senior officials, including Principal Secretary P. Senthilkumar, National Health Mission Director Arun Thamburaj, Health Project Director Vineeth, and Director of Public Health Somasundaram, attended the reappraisal meeting, on with territory wellness officers and aesculapian assemblage deans, via video conference.
