Bhopal: The festive season has begun and so is the susceptibility to contagious diseases with the mass public gatherings in the city. The district health department has been continuously working to reduce the spread of any kind of diseases particularly dengue, malaria, chikungunya and swine flu but it has zero preparations to monitor these mass gatherings where people are prone to all these disease.
The district health department and BMC together conducts anti larvae surveys and fogging to kill mosquitoes in city but none of the department has any clue about the precautions taken at public places. They both claim that the situation is under control.
CMHO Dr Veena Sinha said that at such places fogging is the only way to control the vector borne disease, for which BMC is responsible and as of swine flu, the situation is under control. “The fogging teams of BMC are responsible for spraying pyrethrum at public places and swine flu is not a big concern because there have been just one case till now, where the patient came from Delhi”, she said.
When contacted the BMC in charge for spraying pyrethrum, Ramnarayan Navik, he said that they spray pyrethrum in areas from where cases are reported. “We send teams where dengue, malaria and chikungunya are reported. I don’t know anything else”.
