Prayagraj pockets turning breeding grounds for mosquitoes

PRAYAGRAJ: City pockets, including posh colonies, are turning into breeding grounds for mosquitoes as cases of dengue are being detected more in city areas than in trans-Ganga and trans-Yamuna pockets.
On Thursday, Sanagm city reported 11 new dengue cases, including four in Chota Baghara, two in Naini, two in Phulpur, one in Saidabad, one in Jhunsi and one in Soraon.With this, a total of 127 dengue cases have been reported in the district so far.
Statistics revealed that out of the 127 cases detected till Thursday, 90 cases were found in city areas and the rest 37 cases in rural areas including trans-Ganga and trans-Yamuna pockets.
On Wednesday, the highest 14 dengue cases were reported in a single day, worrying officials of health department and the district administration who have taken up a series of awareness camps in city areas to combat vector-borne disease. These cases were reported from posh areas of the city, including Medical College campus, Kalindipura, Govind Nagar, Shivkuti, SRN and Myrobad.
District malaria officer (DMO) AK Singh told TOI, “In the city region, Chhota Baghara and Govindpur were hotspots, while in the rural region, Ismailganj (Soraon) in trans-Ganga was a hotspot.”
“But we have been successful to check the spread of the disease before it could turn into an outbreak,” he added.
Highest 10 cases were reported in Ismailganj, followed by nine in Govindpur and four in Chota Baghara.
On Thursday, a team of senior administrative officials interacted with residents at Chota Baghara area and advised them to take all precautionary measures to control the spread of dengue in the city.
The DMO said that there are 13 active cases in the district, out of which eight are hospitalized and the rest five have recovered. The city has reported one casualty so far. The number of dengue cases on September 8 was 67, which rose to 127 on September 16.
With incessant rainfall for the past three days and subsequent rise in the number of dengue cases, officials of the district administration and health department are knocking doors of citizens in many localities with an appeal to adopt all necessary measures in order to keep the disease in check.