Seminar was organized to provide guidelines to smaller hospitals for treatment of Dengue Fever/Dengue Haemorrhagic fever

A seminar was organized to provide guidelines to smaller hospitals for treatment of Dengue Fever/Dengue Haemorrhagic fever  in Small Hospitals. The meeting was held at Vikasasowdha along Health Minister Shri. U T Kadhar, Municipal Administrative minister Shri. Qumarull Islam and other concerned department officials.

… a bit of DENGUE EPIDEMIOLOGY

Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings. An estimated 50 million dengue infections occur annually and approximately 2.5 billion people live in dengue endemic countries. The 2002 World Health Assembly resolution urged greater commitment to dengue by WHO and its Member States. Of particular significance is the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution on the revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (3), which includes dengue as an example of a disease that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern with implications for health security due to disruption

and rapid epidemic spread beyond national borders.

Some 1.8 billion (more than 70%) of the population at risk for dengue worldwide live in member states of the WHO South-East Asia Region and Western Pacific Region, which bear nearly 75% of the current global disease burden due to dengue.

well most agreed and also initiated that Dengue prevention and control will need to be implemented at all levels starting at smaller hospitals which can provide timely and effective treatment.