The prevalence of dengue fever has further increased in various areas under Dhanpur Primary Health Centre. Many of those who had fever over the past few days have tested positive, which means they are infected with dengue fever.

Dhanpur primary health center area has been raging fever for the last ten days. Altogether, in the last ten days, a total of 159 people have been infected with dengue fever in various towns under Dhanpur Primary Health Center. They have been referred to GB from Dhanpur on various occasions.

Many of those infected with dengue fever did not go to the hospital. Health Department staff collected blood samples from fever patients during door-to-door patient examination.

The health department did not want to accept that dengue virus was present in those with fever. After testing for malaria or typhoid, these two diseases were not identified, and then the presence of dengue fever was tested. The health department confirmed that patients were suffering from dengue after receiving the report from Agartala.

Almost every family in that has one or more members affected by fever. Some are going to the hospital and many are looking for ways to cure the disease by buying fever medicine from the medicine store.

Meanwhile, the representatives of the health department are conducting health camps in different town every day and giving all the medical advice and medicines to the people of the area.

The outbreak of dengue fever in the neighboring country Bangladesh is terrible. Physical examination of Bangladeshi citizens coming through Srimantapur checkpost is going on regularly. Those who are suffering from dengue fever are being treated at Dhanpur Hospital.

According to the health department’s sources, awareness is the only way to avoid this disease. People are being made aware again and again to take care that there is no stagnant water in the house.