The Health department has sounded an alert to all districts to intensify disease surveillance and preventive measures against infectious diseases as climate change-induced changes and the upcoming monsoon season are likely to exacerbate the possibilities of infectious disease outbreaks.
The pre-monsoon Arogyajagratha campaign needs to be strengthened. More attention should be paid to pockets where migrant labourers are housed in large numbers and the Health department should make the right interventions in districts by identifying hotspots, Health Minister, Veena George, said, at a high-level meeting of officials of all district health administrations here on Wednesday. State-level disease monitoring should be strengthened, she added.
All districts need to be on guard as dengue fever and leptospirosis cases are beginning to go up. Kozhikode district has been reporting Shigella cases regularly, it was pointed out at the meeting
