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Written By: Admin | Updated : October 19, 2012 11:58 AM IST
Citizens blame Chandigarh Health department officials for rising number of dengue cases. The number of dengue cases have risen exponentially this year, and it seems that the UT(union territory) health department is pulling at straws to find where they are going wrong.
According to statistical data the number of dengue cases in the city is 145, whereas according to other health sources, there are about 350 cases of dengue, dengue-like-fever and viral fever. These cases are not recorded in the official total, thereby leading the authorities to believe that the ravaging disease is under control.
While citizens say that the government is inept in handle the sheer load of the cases, the officials are seen playing their own blame game. The department handling the vector- borne disease wing and other hospitals, where there is a daily inflow of dengue positive cases, seems to be in a state of pandemonium.
The department of health says that since the rains have lasted till late September, the cases are higher this year. The departments earlier strategies like fogging, spraying and entomological surveys, seemed to have failed and their door-to door campaigning on prevention of this disease is yet to begin. When asked about this, officials say that fogging activities cannot be carried out in all the areas due to a blanket ban on general fogging and therefore only need-based fogging is being done.
