KANPUR: A team of senior administrative and health officials on Tuesday visited the Pardevanpurwa in Pokharpur in the district, where the state's first Zika case was reported on Saturday and reviewed the steps taken for the prevention and treatment of the infection.
The team, headed by divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar, included AD health, CMO, additional municipal commissioner and others.
As on date, one case of Zika virus has been reported from Kanpur City.
Treatment of the patient is going on in the Airforce station hospital and the patient's condition has been stated to be stable by the doctors.
The health department has collected samples of 22 other persons who are family members or close contacts of the patients and all the samples were found to be negative for the virus.
The commissioner interacted with the family members of the infected person and took details of the case, travel history and those of close contacts.
Divisional commissioner informed that a medical expert team from Lucknow also visited the city and interacted with all concerned.
"Today also a team from the Union Health Ministry and another team of the state government are in Kanpur and they are working on the case," said the divisional commissioner.
The commissioner interacted with the expert team of entomology and took updates from them. “They have collected the mosquitoes which will be sent to National Malaria Research Institute (NMRI ), Delhi for DNA testing in a day or two,” he added.
The expert team of epidemiologists from the Government of India has also reached Kanpur. "They will study the previous history of the disease," he added.
He said necessary preventive measures like cleaning and sanitation of the area, identifying the mosquito breeding grounds and sanitising the same has been taken on a war footing note.
"Bringing in necessary awareness about it is also being carried out by the health department and district administration," he said.
The commissioner directed municipal commissioner, AD health and CMO to take all steps for the prevention in the identified area and monitor it personally so that the disease doesn’t spread.
"We all are aware that the health sector is a priority sector for the state government, which is taking all possible steps for best health facilitation and infrastructure," said the commissioner further.
