Kadapa: The district medical health department is taking special measures to control dengue and malaria cases. Although the diseases are not showing any adverse impact till now officials are taking precautionary measures as they are likely to increase during the season. Suspected fever cases are also being monitored separately in each PHC range. Beginning from January 2020 around 1152 sera samples have been tested. They showed seven dengue positive cases. Of the 106 samples tested this month only one case was found to be positive. The main district hospital in Kadapa district hospital in Proddatur and area general hospitals in Pulivendula are conducting special dengue fever tests. If dengue is suspected then blood samples taken within the PHC range are sent for further analysis. Nine malaria cases were detected after tests were conducted on 194316 blood samples this year. Nearly 2140 blood samples were tested this month and one malaria case was confirmed. District malaria officer Hussainamma told Deccan Chronicle that medical health department staff were identifying areas where fever cases were more. Blood samples are being collected in all such vulnerable areas and sent for testing she said. All such findings are being duly taken to the notice of the municipal commissioner and municipal health officer. They were jointly taking preventive measures she said. Assistant malaria officer Rendla Ramachandra Reddy said that when dengue cases are detected in the municipal area pesticides will be sprayed from the house where the case is located up to fifty houses. They also involve officials from the municipal health department in this exercise he said. Reddy explained that if cases were found in small villages then the entire village would be sprayed. He said that they were conducting simultaneous tests for corona malaria and dengue depending on symptoms.

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