Corporation drive to ensure fever-free city

Dr NA Senthil Nathan, Additional City Health Officer, Public Health Department, GCC, told DTNext that 2,224 trained health workers had been deployed and each worker would cover 500 households. 

“We are creating an awareness about the need for hygiene and cleanliness in main places and schools,” he said and also claimed that not even a single mystery fever case had been reported in the city so far. 

To assist the public in the cleaning drive, the corporation workers would visit all the households in the city and remove unnecessary trash. “It would be better for the public to listen to the words of workers so that the collective efforts would bring the fever cases to zero during the rainy reason,” he said. 

According to corporation officials, since mystery fever cases were being reported in the neighbouring district, all the households should be kept neat and clean. The health officials have already taken proactive measures in which around health workers were conducting a door-to-door visit to check the surroundings. 

Officials said that the workers had fully been engaging themselves in the source reduction process. “The workers also are in the process of visiting households and we are monitoring patients going to Government hospitals (GHs) who are affected by fever,” a health department official said and added that they were monitoring all the wards falling within the Corporation. 

In fact, this time the Corporation officials had formulated a new strategy in which they were planning to educate school students about the fever. “We will distribute pamphlets on dos and donts to the public. Such a drive will bear fruit because those having pamphlets can carry the news to their families and relatives and they can contact the Corporation for source reduction,” he explained. 

In a swift action following the outbreak of a mystery fever in Tiruvallur district, three more fake doctors were arrested in Ponneri Bazaar on Friday by Minjur union health department officials. With these arrests, the number of fake doctors’ arrested in a single week has risen to seven. 

The arrested were identified as Paramasivan, Srinivasan and Somasekar, who had studied only up to SSLC, B.A., and B.Sc., respectively.