The Hindu - Karnataka 18.08.2009
Control mosquito menace, CMC officials told
Special Correspondent
| Isolation ward kept ready at McGann Hospital in Shimoga |
ALLAYING FLU FEARS: District Health and Family Welfare Officer M. Channabasappa giving details about the steps being taken to check the spread of A(H1N1) at a municipal meeting in Shimoga on Monday.
SHIMOGA: The City Municipal Council (CMC) at its special meeting here on Monday decided to take steps to check the spread of dengue and malaria although the cases of A(H1N1) had not been reported in the city so far.
CMC president N.J. Rajasekhar, who presided over the meeting, instructed the department concerned to take up extensive fogging and spraying of insecticides to control the mosquito menace.
He asked the officials concerned not to allow the polluted water to store up as they could be the breeding spots for mosquitoes.
The CMC president said the special meeting convened to discuss the preventive measures against A (H1N1) should provide concrete suggestions in this regard.
District Health and Family Welfare Officer M. Channabasappa and District Surveillance Officer Raghunandan gave details about the symptoms of the A (H1N1).
They said that cases of A(H1N1) had not been reported in Shimoga district. “But as a preventive step 10 beds in the McGann Hospital in Shimoga and five beds each in government hospital in taluk headquarters are kept reserved for A(H1N1) patients,” they said.
Dr. Channabasappa said the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits and Tamiflu tablets had been supplied to the district.
He said a medical team comprising a surgeon, anaesthetist, ENT specialist and a child specialist had been formed in all the taluks to treat the patients. He said it had been found that the menace of mosquitoes had increased in some parts of the city as pits dug up for the underground drainage.
