A six-member Central team arrived in Tirunelveli on Friday to visit dengue-affected areas of the district and also to see the patients undergoing treatment in various hospitals. Here, the team visits dengue patients at Tirunelveli Medical College hospital . Photo: By Arrangement
The dengue special ward at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital is overflowing. The central team members visited the hospital, where around 100 dengue patients, including 50 children are undergoing treatment . Photo: A.Shaikmohideen
Children undergoing treatment for dengue at Tirunelveli Medical College hospital. The Central team members, comprising two Joint Directors, an entomologist, paediatrician, epidemiologist and others, were rushed to the district by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. Photo: A.Shaikmohideen
Corporation health officials conducting door to door survey for dengue at Anna Nagar in Tuticorin district on Wednesday. Four cases were under treatment at Tuticorin Medical College hospital. Photo: N. Rajesh
A doctor checks passengers at Chennai Egmore railway station, for dengue fever on Thursday. In Kanyakumrai, 67 persons with dengue were treated since January and two of them, including a six-month-old baby from Mayilaadi, died. In Virudhunagar one person died in Varalotti near Mallankinaru. Photo: R.Ragu
Prevention is better than cure : Tuticorin Corporation Commissioner, S.Madhumathi (right) inaugurating dengue awareness programme in Tuticorin on Thursday. Photo : N.Rajesh
Tuticorin Corporation health officials carrying out fogging operation at old bus stand on Wednesday to control dengue out break. Photo : N.Rajesh
Sewage and rain water stagnate at Madakulam in Madurai.This causes vector borne diseas like dengue fever,malaria. Indian Council for Medical Research had attributed the cause of the spread of the disease to dengue virus type-I and type-III. Photo: G.Moorthy
The central team also conducted extensive investigations in the areas that are suspected to be the breeding grounds of mosquitoes spreading dengue. A Corporation worker in Chennai traps mosquitoes at Kotturpuram. Photo: M. Karunakaran