The government has allocated around 80 crores for the search and destruction of dengue-causing mosquitoes. Dr. Gokarna Dahal, Head of the Insect Disease Branch under the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Health Service Department informed that the federal government has allocated 79.8 million rupees to the local level to control dengue and other insect diseases.
According to him, the budget has been allocated to the local levels of all the seven provinces for the program of finding and destroying the habitats of mosquitoes to control insect diseases including dengue. He said that the state and district have allocated a budget of two lakhs per district in all 77 districts to search for dengue-carrying mosquito habitats and destroy the larvae. He informed that dengue prevention and control action plan 2081 has been prepared and worked.
He says that a campaign to find and destroy mosquito habitats is being conducted at the local level. Likewise, he informed doctors and health workers about the national treatment system for dengue disease, to increase their capacity, to identify epidemics and risk areas on time, and informed them that EDCD has regularly monitored dengue disease throughout the year through the early warning and reporting system.
He said that 1-1 entomological labs have been established in each province and the necessary test kits for the screening of dengue disease are available in addition to carrying out integrated surveillance. Dr. Dahal says that the dengue infection may increase now that it has started raining. The Ministry of Health and Population has estimated that the number of dengue infections will increase this year compared to other years. Dengue confirmed in more than 1400.
According to EDCD, dengue has been confirmed in 1,432 people from 73 districts this year. Most of the infected are in Bagmati and Koshi provinces. 52 thousand 790 people were infected with dengue and 20 people died due to dengue.
Last year, more than 50 percent of the infections occurred in Koshi province. According to infectious disease expert Dr. Bimal Chalise, dengue disease is transmitted by the bite of Aedes mosquitoes infected with the dengue virus. Aedes mosquitoes can grow in any container with water. Its main symptoms are high fever, joint and muscle pain, eyeball pain, headache, body aches, nausea or vomiting. The only way to prevent dengue is to avoid mosquito bites. Dr. Dahal suggests wearing clothes that cover the whole body, burning incense, and applying ointment to avoid mosquito bites. In order to control mosquitoes, Dr. Dahal urges to clean all the places where water accumulates around houses, schools, and offices where mosquitoes may breed, to clean water tanks from time to time and to destroy mosquito breeding.
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