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Parijat follows suit, informs House of exact toll
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 15 2010:
The outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis has claimed three lives while five other persons are suspected to have died of the disease, stated Health and Family Welfare Minister Pheiroijam Parijat during the Assembly session today.
Significantly, it was The Sangai Express which first broke the news of the outbreak of a Japanese Encephalitis like disease and subsequent confirmation that the samples of three patients who had passed away had tested JE positive during the test conducted at the Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, as reported in the July 14 issue.
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Responding to a call attention motion raised by MPP MLAs Dr Ng Bijoy, RK Anand and Dr I Ibohalbi, Parijat said that three confirmed cases of death due to Japanese Encephalitis were reported from RIMS.
However, five other death cases could not be confirmed whether they were caused by Japanese Encephalitis or not.
Out of around 75 people admitted in different hospitals for treatment with symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis, only about 4/5 people remain in the hospitals.
Even though there is no separate medicine to treat the disease, there is no shortage of drugs to treat the disease on supportive and symptomatic basis.
Kits for testing blood samples infected by Japanese Encephalitis had run out but the same have been ordered and the kits have reached Kolkata.
The cargo is expected to reach Imphal in the next couple of days, Parijat informed the House.
The State Government's plan to take up mass vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis for children up to 15 years of age has been approved by the Central Government.
The same programme would be launched in November in the four valley districts and Chandel.
Parijat claimed that fogging is being taken up on a war footing in different parts of the State to neutralise the carrier-mosquitoes.
So far, more than one lakh bed nets have been chemically treated to avoid mosquitoes.
Moreover, efforts are being made to constitute a coordination committee to check spread of the disease from pigs and other animals, Parijat stated.
Raising the call attention motion, Dr Ng Bijoy observed that people have been caught in a panicky situation as drugs to treat the disease have run out while the death toll has been rising.
He asserted that the Health Department has failed to ensure proper functioning of its information-education-communication unit.
He further sought attention of the Government to extend all possible assistance including monetary aid to the patients suffering from Japanese Encephalitis.
RK questioned if the State Government has any healthy policy.
Observing that the Government should give due attention to the disease, Dr I Ibohalbi wondered at the failure of the Government to stock the kits for testing the disease at RIMS and JN Hospital.
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