Health P.K. Sreemathy has ordered that simultaneous fogging be carried
out in all corporation wards, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday.In a
review meeting held here on Sunday, the Minister also ordered to
organise a 10-day clean-up activity in the Corporation limits as a
follow up of the fogging to clear the area of mosquitoes that spread
the dangerous fever.The Minister has sanctioned Rs.7.10 lakh for the
activity with each of the 71 wards getting Rs.10,000. Apart from the
25 fogging machines of the Corporation, additional equipment provided
by the District Medical Officer will be used for fogging. Every ward
will be provided with a fogging machine each. The Minister said that
the health officials will chart out the action plan on Monday.The
initial phase of the cleaning activity will be monitored by two field
officials in each ward and will be reported to the block co-ordinators
for each ward.Ms. Sreemathy said that nearly 30 additional field
workers would be put on duty to supplement the 120 field staff,
including health inspectors and junior health inspectors, of the
corporation health wing. The Minister said that the cleaning up
activities should be completed by December 15.Besides the awareness
programmes of the District Health authorities, Kudumbashree units will
be pressed into service to spread awareness about disposing garbage in
a healthy and hygienic manner. The households should be able to
dispose the organic waste generated within the premises. Only those
waste that cannot be disposed organically should be taken out, she
said.An isolation ward will be arranged at the General Hospital for
patients with dengue fever, said the Minister.As part of finding an
immediate remedy to the sewage and drainage problem in the hospital,
Rs.6 lakh will be sanctioned from the National Rural Health Mission to
the District Collector, who is the chairperson of the Hospital Welfare
Society, without delay.The Minister said that the government was also
considering to set up a blood separation unit, costing Rs.50-60 lakh,
in the General Hospital to have a full-fledged blood bank at the
hospital.There are only two such units in the district, one in Aluva
Government Hospital and the other at the IMA's Blood Bank. A
separation unit is important as blood platelets are required for the
treatment of dengue fever.The government has plans to renovate the
Government Nursing School and to improve the hostel facilities, she
said. An estimate is being prepared for it.The Minister said that the
government has appointed 1,800 nurses over and above the existing
nursing vacancies to improve the nursing care given to the patients.In
the district alone, there are 135 additional nurses and the General
Hospital has 25 additional nurses, she said.
The Hindu, 24th November 2008
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