TRIBUNJOGJA.COM, BANTUL – Department of Health (Dinkes) Bantul record case Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in the district Bantul during January-March reached 242 cases.
This number is more than half of the total cases DBD in 2021.
said the Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Bantul Health Office, Dr. Sri Wahyu Joko Santoso, detailing the 2022 dengue cases for January there were 159 cases, in February 68 cases and from March to early this week 15 cases.
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“So for the past 3 months there have been 242 cases,” he said Thursday (24/3/2022).
However, the man who is familiarly called Oki admitted that until this March, there had been no patients who died of DBD .
According to him, the death rate due to DBD can be suppressed because it provides maximum service.
As for 2021, there are 410 cases DBD and there is one patient who died of DBD .
Oki said that the number of cases in 2022 could not be compared to 2021.
“It’s still temporary data, so it can’t be compared to 2021. In addition, there will be more rain in 2022,” he said.
He stated that currently the case DBD more covered by Covid-19 cases.
Therefore, his party appealed to the public not to relax the eradication of mosquito nests (PSN) during the pandemic and beyond.
He asked the public to regularly clean mosquito nests as a prevention effort DBD .
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