Monsoon hits Kerala, so does dengue. Dengue fever continues to be on an epidemic scale in the state with 118 new confirmed cases in the state.\u00a0 Of this, 47 cases were from the capital city.<\/p>\n
Dengue fever has been reported mostly from the regions such as Sreekaryam, Ambalathinkara, Karikkakom, Shaghumughom, Pappanamcode, Pattom, Peroorkada, Balaramapuram, and beyond. Health inspectors had been asked to carry out fogging and indoor spraying within a 100-metre radius in places where the cases were reported. The Health Department has launched a helpline number called Disha-1056<\/strong> so that health inspectors can be alerted to carry out fogging and indoor spraying to kill mosquitoes.<\/p>\n The authorities have also identified a list of hot spots with a high density of Aedes mosquitoes which causes the Dengue. These include Pangappara, Kottukal, Karakulam, Mukkola, Vizhinjam, Thiruvallam, Vilappil, Kalliyoor, Balaramapuram, Pallichal, Kattakkada, Kadakampally, and Chettivilakam. The emergence of Leptospirosis and Hepatitis A is also worrying the health officials. Seven leptospirosis cases have been reported in the state, all from Trivandrum.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the authorities have opened a 24-hour control room in Trivandrum. Homoeopathy director has informed that homoeo medicines for prevention as well as treatment are now available at all 30 hospitals, 371 NRHM dispensaries and 611 government homoeo dispensaries. Health inspectors had been directed to monitor the situation and setup awareness programmes, medical camps and distribution of preventive medicine.<\/p>\n For more details on homoeo medicines contact telephone numbers: Trivandrum – 0471-2474266, Kollam – 0474-2797220, Alappuzha – 0477-2242609, Pathanamthitta – 0473-4226063 and Idukki – 0486-2227326.<\/p>\n 24-hour control room Number<\/strong>– 0471-2466828<\/p>\n Disha helpline number<\/strong> -1056<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monsoon hits Kerala, so does dengue. Dengue fever continues to be on an epidemic scale in the state with 118 new confirmed cases in the state.\u00a0 Of this, 47 cases were from the capital city. Dengue fever has been reported mostly from the regions such as Sreekaryam, Ambalathinkara, Karikkakom, Shaghumughom, Pappanamcode, Pattom, Peroorkada, Balaramapuram, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-11181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}