KARANGANYAR, KRJOGJA.com – Until the second week of February 2022, as many as 118 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever were handled by the Karanganyar District Health Office. Two of them died, namely a toddler from Suruh Village, Tasikmadu District. Both could not survive despite being treated medically. The bite of the aedes aegypty mosquito also resulted in a number of residents in several hamlets in this village being rushed to the hospital.
“The two toddlers are from Ngemplak Hamlet and Pakis Hamlet. Die. In Pendem Wetan Hamlet, there are also some affected,” said a resident of Pendem Wetan Hamlet, Suruh Village, Suwondo to reporters, Sunday (12/2/2022).
Together with puskesmas officers, residents do fumigation or fogging to repel mosquitoes. The head of the Kebakkramat II Public Health Center, Patria Bayu, said that Suruh Village had a DHF endemic status because the case findings were quite high. Seven residents are still being treated at the hospital, while previously two children under five died of dengue fever. DHF cases increase with the arrival of the rainy season.
“For the past two days (Saturday-Sunday) we have been fogging in Suruh Village. Tell them to be endemic for DHF because the cases are high,” he said.
He appealed to the public to be aware of dengue fever, in addition to the corona virus. The most effective way to prevent dengue is to eradicate mosquito nests and their larvae. Fogging only kills adult mosquitoes, not larvae. Meanwhile, the eradication of mosquito larvae is still carried out through the PSN movement.
Data from the DKK stated that the number of dengue cases at the beginning of this year was quite high. Until the second week of February, there were 118 cases. Most of the population of the age of children and productive age. The Head of P2P Warsito said that dengue cases are expected to continue to increase if people ignore environmental hygiene. The rainy season often causes puddles of water which then become a breeding ground for dengue mosquitoes. He said the low awareness of citizens in maintaining clean and healthy living behavior (PHBS) was one of the triggering factors for dengue cases. (Lim)
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