Web reporting to keep track on chikungunya

 
Stepping up monitoring efforts for chikunguniya, the Tamil Nadu Health Department will soon launch a web-based reporting system to keep track on fever cases in hospitals across the state. Apart from the day-to-day surveillance of mosquito density across the state, public health officials are also holding meetings with their counterparts in the other southern states.

Director of Public Health P.Padman said, "We are bringing in a web-based reporting system. The National Informatics Centre is developing the software and it would be completed in a week to 10 days".  Accordingly, the institutions will be grouped as medical colleges and attached institutions, district and sub-district hospitals, primary health centers and private doctors. Once the software is developed, all the institutions should send reports on a daily basis on chickun Guniya cases, dengue, Leptospirosis and also on all fever cases including malaria. The parallel reporting would help in regular analysis of the situation.


(The New Indian Express, 29th  May,2007)