Bhubaneswar: On the directions of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department Shalini Pandit and other senior officials of the Department visited Rourkela to take stock of Diarrhoea situation on the ground.
The health team reviewed arrangements to control the Diarrhoea outbreak. The team made visits to RGH and UPHCs and interacted with the patients.
The Health Secretary said that the situation was under control and cases would drop within the next two to three days.
Speaking to media persons, Pandit said, “We have already brought the situation under control through water quality improvement, IC checking and food safety checking. The number of serious patients is not increasing. As a preventive measure, ten primary health centres will work 24x 7 from today.”
She said that an adequate number of doctors and paramedical staff have been deployed at the PHCs for the treatment of patients round-the-clock.
She informed that epidemiology and microbiology study has been started by the Community Medicine department of Sundargarh Medical College to find out the causes of Diarrhoea outbreak.
The teams of SCB medical and hospital, Cuttack and Regional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswar will also visit Rourkela soon, she added.