Within the wake of an undiagnosed fever claiming 15 lives in Gujarat’s Kutch, the Union Well being Ministry has arrange a surveillance mechanism to right away reply to such outbreaks, official sources stated on Saturday, September 14, 2024.
They stated factors of entry similar to airports, land ports and seaports are additionally being monitored for the illness.
The federal government has established an efficient surveillance mechanism via the Nationwide Centre for Illness Management (NCDC), Built-in Illness Surveillance Programme (IDSP), IHIP community, and in addition via the One Well being Mission to right away reply to any such outbreaks, based on the sources.
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“The ICMR’s community of laboratories will handle diagnostics and there may be sufficient functionality to step up the availability of diagnostic kits if required,” they stated.
Beneath the PM-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM), the federal government has strengthened tertiary care throughout the nation via AIIMS institutes, aside from bolstering emergency providers via vital care blocks.
Additionally, enough medical oxygen is obtainable for any such exigency, the sources added.
The Gujarat authorities has deployed specialist docs and 50 medical groups in and round seven villages of two talukas in Kutch district after the outbreak of the undiagnosed fever.
Samples of the contaminated sufferers have been despatched to the Gujarat Biotechnology Analysis Centre (GBRC) in Gandhinagar and on the Nationwide Institute of Virology in Pune to determine the precise reason behind the fever and the following deaths.
Printed – September 14, 2024 12:55 pm IST
