Five cases of dengue suspected in Rangpo; awarness required immediately

Rangpo : Within a span of week five cases of dengue illness is reported at Rangpo Primary Health Center PHC. The five patients were boarded to STNM Gangtok for preliminary tests which revealed a suspicious case of Dengu. With the report of an outbreak the people have started reacting to the matter spontaneously in Rangpo. An urgency is felt in the area regarding awareness from the strange illness dengue before it becomes an epidemic throughout. In this regard the various social help group and organization have reacted positively to extend full support with State Health Department in curbing the illness at priority, was told to correspondent
Since Rangpo is a border major gateway inside Sikkim connecting with the mainland, so the cleanliness drive, awareness among the public living in the region is highly recommended. As many people in thousands enters Sikkim through and out daily basis so check sum is required, said NGO to the media.
At IBM Colony where a State Fisheries Dept has installed a Fish Pond is filled up with mesh, contaminated water, mosquito larva and insects as such many times the public living in the vicinity have reported to the Dept but it went off in vain without any action proclaimed by department. However with self exercises awakened public with the Nagar Panchayat have been periodically checking cleanliness in surrounding. Public have now felt urgency of Department to take step prior to any dreadful situation or epidemic may not spread in the Rangpo town or spread wide across the state.

Source: http://voiceofsikkim.com/