A total of six persons have been receiving treatment at the Mannargudi Government Hospital for suspected dengue symptoms. Health officials have taken intensive dengue outbreak activities at Paravakottai village near Mannargudi from where four of them were admitted.
A couple of days back, around 20 people from Paravakottai visited the Mannargudi GH with complaints of intermittent fever and giddiness.
Their blood samples were sent for examination and it was found four of them were positive for dengue. Also, two other persons from Serumangalam and Savalakkaran villages were also found to be affected by dengue the same time.
All the six have been provided with specialised treatment at the Mannargudi GH.
Last month, a section of the Paravakottai villagers complained of diarrhoea and vomiting along with fever and it was later found that sewage water had mixed with potable water supply system. Immediately, officials attended to the problem and were in fact monitoring the situation when the dengue issue hit the village now.
Deputy Director of Health Services, Tiruvarur, M. Senthil Kumar, said that three doctors, 30 paramedical staff and field workers have been deployed at the village to intensively undertake dengue prevention activities. MGNREGS workers have been pressed into service to clean up the village and rid it of dengue mosquito sources. Nilavembu concoction was also being supplied to the villagers.
‘Approach doctors’
People must first approach the doctors instead of getting fever symptoms treated using medicines bought across the counter without any proper medical advice, Dr. Senthil Kumar said. Similar efforts would be taken at Savalakkaran and Serumangalam villages, he added.
