Gunungkidul –
The Health Office (Dinkes) of Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) recorded that there were 181 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) during January-March 2022. Of these, two of them died.
“For January 133 cases, February 39 cases and March 9 cases. So for 3 months this temporarily reached 181 cases (DHF),” said Head of Section (Kasi) Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (P2PM) Gunungkidul Health Office, Diah Prasetyorini, to journalists, Monday (21/3/2022).
“For those who died (due to DHF) there were 2 cases. The details were in February and March one person each and all of them were male,” he said.
According to Diah, this number almost equals the total number of deaths from dengue fever in 2021. In 2021 a total of 3 people died.
Diah predicts the number of dengue cases this year could exceed last year. The reason is that it has only entered the initial 3 months there have been 181 cases, while in 2021 there will be a total of 189 dengue cases.
According to him, the high number of dengue cases at the beginning of this year was due to the lack of public awareness of prevention efforts, especially the eradication of mosquito nests (PSN) and monitoring of larvae. For this reason, his party asked the community to regularly clean mosquito nests as an effort to prevent dengue.
“DHF is more about PSN and awareness to carry out the 1 house 1 jumantik movement (periodic larva monitoring independently),” he said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Gunungkidul Health Office, Dewi Irawaty, said that the socialization of the PSN movement and 1 house 1 jumantik was intensively carried out to all levels of society. According to him, what is needed now is the active role of the community.
“We have intensified socialization regarding the prevention of DHF, but again the community must take an active role in preventing the spread of DHF. Because prevention efforts really need community participation,” concluded Dewi.
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