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A day after a five-month-old child succumbed to dengue at the Kanchi Kamakoti Child’s Trust Hospital, the Chennai Corporation on Friday decided to slap a formal notice on them for not reporting the death on time.
“We were informed of the child’s death much after it occurred and so we will be sending a notice by Monday,” complained a senior official with the civic body’s health department.
This being the second dengue-related death in the city in the recent past, the corporation is weighing options of sending stinkers to all hospitals to take the direct health reporting system seriously.
Any failure or delay in reporting communicable or endemic diseases can lead to its spread and/or panic, the official added.
Meanwhile, though they had denied the fact that the previous child’s death was due to dengue, the corporation has admitted that the Child Trust Hospital case was a confirmed ‘dengue death’.
Given the massive epidemic situation that ravaged the Tirunelveli region this summer, there are fears that the mosquito-borne virus might be rearing its head in Chennai.
To allay those fears, the corporation has promised to increase fogging and advised people to avoid storing water indoors in pots.
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