Khammam: Dengue cases are increasing at an alarming level in all mandals in Khammam and Bhadradri-Kothagudem districts. The cases in the two districts touched 215 but officials are not releasing the details.
The number may rise to thousands in the coming days as the flood water is stagnating in all the gram panchayats and dengue mosquitoes are present everywhere.
In August, 2016, post floods, about 2,100 dengue cases were reported in the erstwhile Khammam district.
Those catching fever are advised to go for the Immunoglobulin Elisa test to confirm whether or not the fever is related to dengue. Seventeen dengue cases were reported from Karepalli so far and ten cases from Vemsoor mandal. Hundreds of dengue patients are believed to be undergoing treatment in private hospitals.
Dengue cases were reported in Dummugudem, Pinapaka, Burgumpahad, Mulakalapalli, Kothagudem, Paloncha and Chandrugonda in Bhadradri district. The number of cases in these mandals ranged from five to ten. There are complaints that the platelets of the patients came down after the government diagnostic centre confirmed the fever as normal.
Venkateswara Rao, a resident of Tallada, said it is difficult to find out which type a fever is of. His cousin’s platelets came down after the government hospital said it was a normal fever. Ten dengue cases each were reported from Tallada, Kallur, Enkoor, Chintakani and Bonakal mandals in Khammam district. There were five cases in Kusumanchi, Tirumalayapalem, Raghunathapalem and Nelakondapalli mandals.
The incessant rains and stagnation of water in the habitations are creating the ideal conditions for dengue mosquitoes to lay eggs and multiply their numbers. The district administration should alert the gram panchayats on filling up such places with earth to check the dengue spread.
The people in the district had bad experiences of dengue and there were hundreds of dengue patients in hospitals between 2015 and 2020. The Bonakal mandal stood out in the news by registering 353 dengue cases in one day.
Krishna,a resident of Bonakal who recovered from dengue in 2020, suggested that the administration start serious efforts to check the mosquito breeding in various habitations.
