Sukabumi – A total of 366 residents of Sukabumi City were infected with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) from early 2022 to March. Five of them died from dengue fever.
Head of the Sukabumi City Health Office, Rita Fitrianingsih, said that currently there was an increase in dengue cases in Sukabumi. He said that in the future several mechanisms would be improved that could speed up the handling of DHF.
“Now, we will improve the reporting mechanism, then diagnose. Our DHF cases are very high,” said Rita to detikJabar, Monday (21/3/2022).
He admitted that the DHF case had been diverted by the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, he is starting to focus again on preventing and handling dengue fever because the COVID-19 cases are starting to subside.
“DHF has become a little bit anu yes not marginalized but our attention is less because of covid. But now that we have started taking care of DHF, the death rate this year is also quite high,” he said.
Separately, the Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Sukabumi City Health Office, Wahyu Handriana added, there were five people who died from dengue. He explained that the melanism for reporting dengue cases had not changed much.
“Reports must be fast and the diagnosis uses the basis from the Ministry of Health, which reports hospitals due to dengue fever who diagnose doctors. Currently, five residents have died (DHF),” he concluded.
Previously, the Sukabumi City Government had issued a Circular regarding Extraordinary Events. In the SE, it is explained that the eradication of mosquito nests or PSN 3 M plus and the 1 house 1 jumantik movement (G1R1J) must be carried out to respond to Extraordinary Events (KLB) when dengue cases increase in the transition season. The 3M is meant to drain, close, reuse or recycle.
As for the fogging effort, he said it would be carried out after an epidemiological investigation. Considering that fogging using insecticides will only kill adult mosquitoes and can harm human health.
It is said that fogging is not the main strategy in preventing DHF. The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, so fogging is not recommended as it can cause crowds.
“Focus fogging we will implement when after epidemiological research it is necessary to do fogging,” wrote the received SE detikJabar.
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