M.Ilyas
DC CORRESPONDENT
Ongole, Sept. 4: People in Prakasam district are worried about increase in dengue fever cases.
“Health emergency” was declared in the adjacent Guntur district due to largescale dengue cases, and Prakasam is also headed in the same direction, as presently 42 people are suffering from dengue and another 179 are ailing with suspect dengue symptoms.
Singarayakonda is worst-hit with 15 dengue positive cases. Chirala rural Transco assistant engineer N. Subba Rao, 34, of Ramannapeta died of dengue fever after a week long illness on Friday. As many as 15 people succumbed to dengue in the district till now.
There has been a significant rise in dengue cases in the district for the last two years. Likewise, malaria cases were also on rise. Lack of hospital facilities is forcing people of western Prakasam to go to Guntur or Vijayawada, where as the people from western reason are going to Chennai for treatment. A few people are rushing to Rims hospital at Ongole for diagnosis.
Doctors are saying that people are coming for treatment in the chronic stage, because of which, they are asking them to go to Guntur, Vijayawada or Hyderabad, in view of their critical condition. They added that if patients contact doctors in the benign stage, there were lots of chances of treating the patients.
The municipal commissioner, Mr S. Ravindrababu, said that they were dropping oil balls in the drains, fogging, and spraying to curb mosquitoes.
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