Collector seeks dengue reports from private doctors

Visakhapatnam: Alarmed over growing number of dengue cases, Collector Praveen Kumar held a meeting with the private hospital owners and doctors at the Collectorate here on Saturday. He said patients from other districts and outside the State are coming here for the treatment, hence private doctors should send a list of patients they are treating to the DMHO.

The details should include the type of diseases, tests conducted and the treatment procedures. Separate information should be given on dengue and malaria cases so that precautions could be taken in the areas from where they had come for treatment.

The Collector directed the private doctors to provide information on death cases and the disease that affected them. He told the doctors that the hospitals should prepare themselves with equipment and infrastructure during the monsoon and post monsoon period as there would be more communicable diseases.

Stressing the importance of creating awareness among the people on dengue, 1,000 nursing students would be trained for two days and will be sent to different wards for creating awareness from September 6 onwards.

District medical and health officer Dr J Sarojini asked the private doctors to inform her office if they suspect dengue cases among the patients visiting them.

Technicians from the government hospitals would be sent to the private hospitals for collecting samples which would be sent to King George Hospital. She asked the private doctors not to charge more than Rs 600 for dengue testing as per the Central government orders.Additional Joint Collector D Venkat Reddy, the government and private doctors were present at the meeting.