Clean up the environment to be free from DHF infection
June 15
Dengue haemorrhagic fever
generally breaks out in Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi regions and Kayin and
Mon states, a special emphasis must be placed on controlling DHF in rural and
urban areas, especially at basic education schools for schoolchildren.
As primary students under nine
years old are immature to resist the impacts of DHF, the Ministry of Health and
the Ministry of Education have to jointly establish mosquito-free schools with
momentum. It aims to improve the school health measures as well as contribute
to healthy and happy learning of schoolchildren.
In this regard, not only parents
and guardians but also teachers and officials of the Ministry of Health and the
Ministry of Education are responsible for implementing the aim to shape
mosquito-free schools. Moreover, local authorities at different levels are to
urge the residents to actively participate in mosquito-free measures as part of
efforts to strictly control the outbreak of dengue haemorrhagic fever at home
and schools.
Actually, there is no specific
medicine to be used in treating DHF patients. But, preventive measures against
the disease are the best treatment for monitoring the situation of the disease.
As such, public awareness about the danger and symptoms of DHF must be staged
on a wider scale. Officials from relevant departments and social organizations
have to participate in the activities of combatting mosquitoes.
As a nature, the Aedes mosquito
hatches eggs in clean water and bites humans in the daytime to cause infection.
Such a mosquito-borne disease infects humans one after another mostly under 15
years of age but all persons of all ages can also suffer from such disease. Symptoms
of the disease appear in humans after having been bitten for four to six days
on average.
Generally, the patients will
vomit coffee-coloured ones and excrete black ones. Red spots will appear on the
skin of patients with low temperature and blood pressure and suffer from pain
in the stomach. If so, patients have to receive medical treatments at nearby
hospitals and clinics in time. Moreover, people living nearby the patients have
to clean up their residences and take care of their health conditions.
Combatting mosquito is a primary
task for taking preventive measures of DHF. As such, all the people have to
join the campaigns of shaping public residences and schools to be free from
Aedes mosquitoes and larvae by cleaning up waste and unnecessary storage of
water around the society. If so, the outbreak of DHF in society can be
controlled to some extent.
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