Bengal issues new guideline on dengue
The Bengal Health Department has announced a 14-point guideline for effectively combating dengue. Dengue has hit a few districts of the state, including Kolkata, hard this year and hence the need has arisen for a more efficient strategy.
The key points of the guideline are:
- Setting up fever clinics in hospitals.
- Documenting patients who come to hospitals with fever.
- 24-hour pathological lab facility for dengue patients in hospitals.
- Same-day physical examination reports for dengue-suspected cases.
- Initial immediate blood test reports for patients admitted to hospitals for suspected dengue.
- Doctors must alert the hospital if any alarming find is made on testing the blood.
- Assistant superintendent to be appointed in all hospitals specially for handling dengue cases.
- The nursing superintendent must inform the specially-appointed assistant superintendent on all aspects related to the admitted dengue cases.
- Examination of the admitted dengue patients must be done at regular intervals.
- Weekly meetings on all dengue cases must be held.
- Hospital premises must be kept clean.
- All dengue-related information must be uploaded on the Health Department portal by all hospitals at regular hospitals.
- Awareness posters on dengue must be put up at prominent places in hospitals.
- Vector-control personnel must regularly visit hospitals for thorough checks.
- Adequate supply of platelets in blood banks at all hours must be ensured.
