Gujarat has recorded a considerable decline in malaria, dengue and chikungunya circumstances this yr, with the state reporting a forty five per cent fall in malaria, 39.1 per cent in dengue and 48.1 per cent in chikungunya infections as much as epidemiological Week 33 in contrast with the corresponding interval in 2025.
In response to information launched by the Gujarat Well being Division on World Mosquito Day, malaria circumstances fell from 1,407 within the corresponding interval final yr to 774 this yr. In distinction, dengue circumstances declined from 1,293 to 788.
Chikungunya circumstances dropped from 154 to 80. No deaths as a consequence of malaria or dengue had been recorded throughout the interval.
The decline has come alongside expanded surveillance, testing, and mosquito-control measures throughout the state, together with a house-to-house marketing campaign that introduced greater than 6.51 crore individuals underneath surveillance throughout its second part.
The state examined greater than 1.09 crore blood samples for malaria as much as Week 33 of 2025, detecting 1,407 circumstances.
Within the corresponding interval this yr, greater than 1.11 crore samples had been examined, with 774 circumstances detected. Gujarat has additionally expanded diagnostic capability for dengue and chikungunya.
Diagnostic centres at 42 hospitals affiliated with medical schools are testing for each ailments.
As much as Week 33 this yr, greater than 83,000 serum samples for dengue and greater than 12,000 for chikungunya had been examined, bringing the mixed whole to just about 96,000.
The state’s house-to-house surveillance programme was carried out in two phases. In the course of the first part, from April 27 to Might 6, the programme achieved 89% protection via fever surveillance, anti-larval actions, and well being training.
The second part, carried out from July 1 to 10, concerned 19,558 groups and coated greater than 6.51 crore individuals.
The train collected greater than 2.57 lakh blood samples, figuring out 28 malaria sufferers, all of whom acquired therapy.
The marketing campaign has additionally targeted on eliminating mosquito breeding grounds. Home-to-house surveillance eradicated greater than 29.63 lakh mosquito breeding websites, and fogging was carried out in additional than 3.21 lakh homes.
In malaria-sensitive areas, multiple lakh individuals throughout 116 villages in 24 districts had been coated throughout the first spherical of insecticide spraying.
The second spherical started on August 1. To strengthen field-level surveillance throughout the monsoon, the state deployed 497 vector-control groups throughout districts and municipal firms.
The groups are conducting fever surveillance and anti-larval actions in areas thought of weak to mosquito-borne ailments.
The state has additionally turned to organic management measures, releasing larvivorous fish at 5,024 everlasting waterlogging websites throughout Gujarat by the top of July.
The fish goal mosquito larvae at breeding websites earlier than they grow to be grownup mosquitoes.
“Medicines, larvicides and important gear had been stored adequately obtainable, whereas the standing of vector-borne ailments is being monitored on a day by day, weekly and month-to-month foundation,” officers stated.
The measures come throughout the monsoon, when stagnant water can create breeding websites for mosquitoes.
The World Well being Organisation notes that many vector-borne ailments could be prevented via protecting measures and neighborhood mobilisation.
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