Realitarakyat.com – The Mukomuko District Health Bureau, Bengkulu Province, recorded 28 dengue-positive area residents in the period from January to September 2022.
“DHF cases from January to September 2022 are likely to increase because residents’ awareness of eradicating mosquito nests (PSN) is decreasing,” said the DHF program manager at the Mukomuko District Health Office, Bara. Lendra, in a statement to Mukomuko, Thursday (6/10).
The number of dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in this area in the period January-September 2022 increased compared to the same period in 2021 there were 16 cases.
He said this after comparing data on the number of local residents positive for dengue hemorrhagic fever in the period from January to September 2021 and 2022.
The local health office receives monthly reports on the number of local residents who have contracted dengue disease from Puskesmas in this area and conducts fumigations to prevent dengue fever transmission.
He said, of the 28 people who tested positive for dengue fever in 2022, the majority of the sick were up to six people in May, four people in July, three people in June, and three people in April, three people in September.
Meanwhile, the number of dengue-positive residents from January to March 2022 was one case each.
He said his party had made various efforts such as tarnishing or fumigation in the places where the cases were found, including conducting epidemiological investigations (PE) and larvicides.
However, of the 28 cases of DHF, he said, only eight locations were fumigated due to a lack of budget to carry out these activities.
“We are spraying these eight locations in cooperation with the puskesmas and the village government,” he said.
In addition, his agency across Puskesmas continues to appeal to the sub-district head, lurah and RT village heads and the entire community to take action to prevent the spread of this disease.
He advised residents, particularly those in dengue fever cases, to eradicate mosquito nests (PSN) to prevent the spread of dengue at this time.
