Special team to examine suspected patients and weave out a strategy to check the spread of diphtheria cases.
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KOZHIKODE: A special team from the state health department and experts from the Kozhikode Medical College hospital would visit Malappuram on Sunday to examine the suspected patients and also weave out a strategy to check the spread of diphtheria cases.
One child, a student of an orphanage at Vettathur in Malappuram, who was admitted at a hospital, died due to diphtheria on Thursday.
One more child was admitted at the Institute of Maternity and Child Health attached to Kozhikode Medical College. Another child of the same orphanage died due to diphtheria last week.
Malappuram District Medical Officer Ummer Farook told Deccan Chronicle that no new diphtheria cases were reported in the district and moves were on to conduct medical camps to administer vaccination to the needy in the region.
The final date of camps would be announced after the arrival of the state-level team, he said.
So far preventive vaccines were administered to as many as 240 persons in the last two days to check the spread of diphtheria in the district, he added.
Meanwhile the district panchayat and local administrative bodies started an all-out campaign in the district to ensure cent percent participation in the vaccination drive.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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