Jamshedpur: Fearing a possible outbreak of vector-borne diseases during the monsoon season, the district health department has written to all the major hospitals and healthcare centres in East Singhbhum, asking them to keep all the necessary facilities ready for treating patients diagnosed with dengue, chikungunya, brain fever, malaria and diarrhoea.
“Rainfall and the resultant fluctuations in temperature lead to an outbreak of vector- borne diseases and that is why hospitals have been asked to keep all the necessary facilities ready. The hospitals have to share with us the data of people arriving with complaints of such diseases so that timely treatment can be provided to them,” additional chief medical officer Sahir Pall said.
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