The northeastern province of Si Sa Ket, on the Cambodian border, has declared that the prevention and control of dengue fever required urgent consideration throughout its area. Local well being officials say they’re now especially involved about what is going to occur over the last three months of the annual wet season.
Governor Weerasak Wichitsaengsi signed a Memorandum of Understanding for dengue fever prevention and management together with the provincial public well being chief Dr Worawuth Cheunta, all district chiefs and the Si Sa Ket Hospital.
At a Provincial Hall assembly it was introduced that seven people had died from dengue so far in 2019 and that 1,664 individuals were now affected by the mosquito-borne disease, making Si Sa Ket the country’s 12th worst-hit province.
They agreed the scenario had worsened drastically, saying the month-to-month figures for these hospitalised had exploded from 81 cases in January to 618 in June and 457 in July.
The majority of these affected by this disease had been students, particularly those aged 10-14 years of age.
Si Sa Ket’s Dr Worawuth warned of a possible dengue fever outbreak during the remaining three months of Thailand’s rainy season, particularly in August and September.
According to Lifetime on July 23, Thailand’s 2019 death toll from dengue stood at sixty five and the whole number affected was 53,699. The Department says the northeastern region had the highest number of sufferers at 24,197 instances, followed by the South (7,562 sufferers and a ratio of eighty.70).
SOURCE: The Nation
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