JE patients, others housed in common ward
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 21 2017:
Notwithstanding Health and Family Welfare Minister L Jayantakumar's announcement that one ward has been set aside for people infected by Japanese Encephalitis (JE), three individuals infected by JE were found hospitalised together with other patients in the ICU of JNIMS Medicine Ward .
Even though the JE patients should be given medicines free of cost, they are being denied the same benefit .
Meanwhile, DESAM has decried the act of keeping JE patients and other patients together in a common ward .
A team of DESAM volunteers today inspected the ICU of JNIMS Medicine Ward and they found three JE patients staying together with two other patients .
DESAM president M Angamba said that they went to JNIMS in the wake of the outbreak of several diseases following the recent flood to check whether the patients are being given what are due to them .
Even though Government should provide medicines to JE patients free of cost, the three JE patients undergoing treatment at JNIMS are not given any medicine except for syringes .
Maintaining that people infected by JE should be kept in an isolated ward, Angamba urged the State Government to take up all necessary measures to control JE effectively .
On the other hand, JNIMS Medical Superintendent Dr Ranbir told this reporter over phone that there is no instruction to keep JE patients away from other patients .
JE is not easily communicable.
It is spread by only mosquitoes and there is no need to be panicky, Dr Ranbir said .
Meanwhile four new cases of JE and three new cases of Dengue have been reported today .
The four new JE cases were reported from Tairenpokpi, Singjamei Leishangthem Leikai, Canchipur Kha-Naorem Leikai and Thangmeiband Polem Leikai .
Cases of Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis continue to climb in Churachandpur as five more cases of Dengue and one case of JE has been detected in the last two days taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito borne diseases to 60, reports our Churachandpur correspondent .
Churachandpur which has for now turned out to be the hotbed for these viruses with positive cases for Dengue soaring to 43 and JE to 19 .
The five new Dengue cases are from Lailam Veng, Zomi Colony, Pearsonmun, Hadquarter Veng, and Dorcas Veng while the latest JE case is from D Phailian.