Japanese encephalitis: Tripura takes measures to prevent outbreak

Agartala: Tripura has not recorded any death due to Japanese Encephalitis but the administration is taking all possible precautionary measures to check the Mosquito- transmitted viral disease.

State Health minister Badal Chowdhury today said that three patients were identified as suffering from encephalitis and had returned home after receiving proper treatment at the G B Panth hospital here.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar reviewed the situation in the presence of Health Minister, Chief Secretary S K Panda and other top officials of the health department yesterday. Meanwhile, a 19-year old tribal woman died of malaria at Dhalai district hospital, about 90 km from here yesterday, Chowdhury said.

With this the death toll of the victims dying of Malaria rose to 72 in the state in the last 45 days, an official said. “A recent entomological survey conducted in the state found that there were different kinds of mosquitoes in the state which carry germs of encephalitis, dengue and malaria,” he told reporters.

Last year 14 cases of encephalitis and ten cases of dengue were treated in government hospitals, he said. The state government, Chowdhury said, was in constant touch with the National Institute of Virology for controlling these types of diseases.

PTI