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Minister reviews steps to contain fever

KOZHIKODE: Forest and Housing Minister Benoy Viswom has said that a sum of Rs.10 lakh has been sanctioned for measures to contain the spread of fever in the district.

Mr.Viswom was speaking to mediapersons after visiting the fever-hit areas in the district along with the Director of Health Services (DHS), District Medical Officer and doctors and staff of the State Institute of Virology and Infectious Diseases, Alappuzha, on Friday. He said a team would be deputed to visit tribal colonies to assess sanitation facilities and provide medical treatment.

Mr. Viswom said steps would be taken to provide free ration to those families, whose breadwinner was suffering from fever.

He said squads were functioning in panchayats and other areas to report these cases to the Collector for follow-up action.

Collector P.B. Salim said that those panchayats which had sent the report got free ration in two days. The idea was to continue free ration for one month.

The team visited the Kuttiyadi PHC, Nadapuram Government Hospital, Valayam PHC and the Vadakara taluk hospital. Round-the-clock facilities for treating patients had been pressed into service at the Nadapuram hospital.

Inpatient facilities would be set up for about two to three weeks at the Valayam PHC. Doctors were in full strength at the Vadakara taluk hospital.

DHS K.K.Shailaja said that the fever deaths in the district were due to leptospirosis.

Regarding the confirmed cases of swine flu from among passengers who arrived at the Karipur airport and now quarantined at the Government Beach Hospital here, Dr.Shailaja said that adequate medicines had been sent to these places.

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