As many as 241 cases, 57 confirmed and 184 probable, were reported from the Kozhikode medical college in August alone. The Government Medical College at Manjeri too has an RPEID cell for Malappuram district. The RPEID cell at Government Medical College, Kozhikode, is supposed to coordinate with the department in disease surveillance and help in epidemic response in north Kerala. Sources said that postgraduate students of the Kozhikode medical college, who normally are assigned to take up field-level research, had been sent to handle the temporary clinics set up in various parts of the district. Even as casualties of leptospirosis are on the rise, and over 200 cases were reported from the Malabar region in August alone, field-level investigations in the affected areas are few and far between.
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