Published: 23rd February 2015 06:02 AM
Last Updated: 23rd February 2015
TIRUVANNAMALAI: The health department has quarantined 21 children, aged between 5 and 9, of Pavithram village and are keeping them under observation in the Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College Hospital after two boys died of fever couple of days ago.
Deputy Director of Health Services of Tiruvannamalai Health Unit Division, Dr Jayanthi, said the first boy, Amalraj (7), son of Sundar of Pavithram village, was brought to the Primary Health Centre at 10.30 am on February 18 with fever. The doctors referred the child to JIPMER in Puducherry. The parents took the child to JIPMER only at about 7 pm after his condition worsened. The child died at 3 am the next day.
Citing the JIPMER report, Dr Jayanthi said Amalraj died of meningococcemia with multiple organ failure. The other boy, Akash (7) of the same village died on Friday. “He was brought to the PHC early in the morning on February 19. The nurse asked his parents to bring him back at about 9 am. The parentsdid not do so and were on their way to the hospital with Akash only after he began to have seizure and fever, when he died.”
The deaths could have been prevented had the parents acted as per the doctor’s advice, Dr Jayanthi said, and added, “We have sent a team of doctors to the village to conduct a medical camp and screen the village, particularly the children. We have also admitted 21 children (aged between 5 and 9) to the Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College Hospital as a preventive measure. They are fine.”
The department has also conducted a mass cleaning programme in the village. “The villagers are reluctant to clean their areas and live in unhygienic conditions. They are not co-operating with the officials engaged in cleaning the area,” she said.
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