TN intensifies dengue surveillance
Final month, the Tamil Nadu Well being and Household Welfare Division intensified surveillance throughout the State, deploying an inter-departmental technique to strengthen early detection, monitor illness transmission, and eradicate mosquito breeding hotspots, whilst officers clarified that there was no speedy plan to roll out Qdenga, the primary authorized dengue vaccine in India.
Final 12 months, between January and November, the state recorded 20,866 dengue instances and 12 deaths. Well being officers attributed the excessive case rely to not an uncontrolled outbreak, however to the energy of Tamil Nadu’s illness surveillance and reporting system, which tracks infections from the first well being centre (PHC) degree to secondary and tertiary care hospitals.
