According to the National Centre for Vector Borne Diseases Control’s official web site, West Bengal had not shared information on dengue instances in 2018 and 2019 as properly. The Union Minister’s allegations come at a time when dengue instances are on the rise within the state.

According to well being division officers, six individuals who have been recognized with dengue have died, taking this 12 months’s toll in West Bengal to over 30 on Friday. Two sufferers died at a non-public hospital in Kolkata whereas present process remedy. One of them was a resident of Salt Lake and the opposite was from Bagha Jatin, they mentioned on Friday.

Two individuals died in Ghatal in Paschim Medinipur, and two individuals died in close by Kharagpur, they added. Meanwhile, a migrant employee who returned from Kerala with signs just like Nipah examined unfavorable, a Health Department official mentioned after receiving the report from the National Institute of Virology (NIV) the place his pattern was despatched. The man is present process remedy on the Beliaghata ID Hospital and has a excessive fever, nausea and throat an infection, he mentioned.

Health division officers mentioned that apart from Kolkata, three extra districts have been recognized as dengue ‘hotspots’ within the states. The three districts are North 24 Parganas, Nadia and Murshidabad.

The administration has recognized a complete of eight ‘hotspots’ in these three districts. In Murshidabad, Suti, Lalgola and Bhagbangola blocks have been recognized as hotspots, whereas in Nadia, Ranaghat and Haringhata blocks have been declared hotspots. In North 24 Parganas, officers declared Dakshin Dumdum, Bangaon and Bidhannagar blocks as hotspots.

The Murshidabad district well being division has directed the involved officers to take particular measures to curb the unfold of dengue.

Health officers additionally mentioned that in Nadia’s Ranaghat and Haringhata blocks, the variety of dengue sufferers stood at 1,461 over the previous one week.

Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nadia, Jyotish Das mentioned, “The dengue situation in Nadia has improved a lot. Government hospitals are conducting more tests than before. Most of the patients diagnosed with the disease in the district are currently in a stable condition.”

According to sources within the district well being division, in North 24 Parganas, round 1,400 folks have been contaminated with dengue prior to now one week. State minister and MLA from Naihati in North 24 Parganas, Partha Bhowmik mentioned, “Dengue instances enhance yearly throughout monsoon.

As directed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state well being division is working in coordination with districts. It could be simpler to regulate dengue if there’s extra consciousness concerning the illness amongst frequent folks.”

– With PTI inputs