The anti-dengue drive, which was spearheaded recently following a sudden spurt in dengue cases in the city, seems to be showing positive results with marginal drop in number of dengue positive cases.
Till a week ago, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) received an average of about 50 fever cases from the city daily. About one fifth of them were tested positive for dengue and this is slowly coming down.
As on Tuesday, four patients with dengue symptoms were admitted to the MGMGH. The number was same on Monday and Sunday too.
Officials attributed this to the ongoing intensive ward to ward and door-to-door campaign on destroying mosquito breeding sources. The Tiruchi City Corporation has collected more than ₹1.50 lakh as fine from residents for failing to destroy mosquito breeding sources in residential complexes and construction sites during the last one week alone.
A sum of ₹1 lakh was imposed on a builder on Thiruverumbur road for failing to comply with the instruction given by the Tiruchi Corporation for destroying or removing mosquito breeding sources. Similarly, fine ranging from ₹.2,000 to ₹.5,000 was composed on flats, individual households and commercial establishments for failing to remove dengue breeding sources.
Collector K. Rajamani, who is reviewing dengue and other fever cases with public health and corporation officials on a daily basis, visited various areas in Mela Chinthamani to check the efficiency of the anti-mosquito drive along with Corporation Commissioner N. Ravichandran.
City Health Officer Chitra told The Hindu that the incidence of dengue cases in K. Abishegapuram zone had been largely brought under control. However, cases from Golden Rock were yet to be fully controlled. Intensive campaign would continue in K. K. Nagar, LIC Colony, Mannarpuram and others, she said.
