Mysuru, KARNATAKA :
KDP progress review meeting expresses concern over rising cases of dengue, chikungunya
Zilla Panchayat President Nayeema Sulthana and others at the KDP progress review meeting held at ZP auditorium yesterday.
Mysuru :
The Health Department is facing acute shortage of staff with 16 Primary Health Centres (PHC) in the district having no doctors at all. Apart from this, many posts, including doctors and pharmacists are lying vacant in the district.
This came to light during the progress review meeting of Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) that took place at the Zilla Panchayat auditorium here yesterday.
Expressing displeasure over the issue, ZP Social Justice Standing Committee President Beerihundi Basavanna questioned the use of the PHCs when there were no doctors.
He demanded the officials concerned to take measures to fill all the vacant posts immediately.
Expressing concern over rising cases of dengue and chikungunya in the district, the members asked the Health Dept. officials to stop breeding of mosquitoes, which are causing the diseases.
Health Department officials said that the Department had collected blood samples of 1,899 people in the district to check for dengue of which 454 people tested positive for dengue, while 124 persons returned positive for chikungunya from January to September. Out of this, 281 dengue cases and 69 chikungunya cases were reported from the city alone, they said while claiming that no deaths have been caused due to these diseases.
ZP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) P. Shivashankar asked the officials concerned to take preventive measures to check the breeding of mosquitoes.
He also directed the officials to take the necessary action for recruitment of staff under the Natl. Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
ZP Vice-President Kayyamballi Nataraj questioned Food and Civil Supplies Dy. Director Dr. K. Rameshwarappa over inaction against Fair Price Shops (FPS) found indulging in unfair practices.
Dr. Rameshwarappa, in his reply, said that a total of 147 cases have been registered against FPS for violation of rules and procedures and also 97 people have gone to jail for misappropriation of Public Distribution System (PDS) food grains. Pointing out that severe action has been taken against 40 FPS on charges of improper PDS grains distribution, he said that the Food & Civil Supplies Department is yet to dispose off 1.2 lakh BPL card applications and that the applications will be disposed off once the Government sets a deadline.
Other issues like lack of teachers in schools, fodder for cattle, progress of various Government Schemes among others, also came up for discussion during the meeting.
ZP President Nayeema Sulthana asked all TP Executive Officers (EO) to submit the list of beneficiaries under SCP, TSP Schemes by Oct. 2.
Women & Child Welfare Dept. Asst. Director Radha, Health Department Official Dr. Somashekar and others were present.
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