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*As on 24/05/2013
Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Dadra Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry States/UTs report April 2013 has not been received
Season?s first malaria death recorded (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Bhopal, June 28, 2013
First Published: 13:54 IST(28/6/2013) | Last Updated: 13:56 IST(28/6/2013)
With the advent of monsoon, cases of malaria are rising in the city. Till now, 132 cases of malaria have been reported in Bhopal. Out of them, four cases were of malaria falciparum, while the rest 128 cases were of malaria vivax.
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*As on 25/07/2013
Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Delhi, Lakshadweep & Puducherry States/UTs report June 2013 has not been received
Andhra Pradesh
Malaria rises by 30 percent in Vizag, most cases in slums
By Ayesha Minhaz | ENS - VISAKHAPATNAM 19th August 2013 11:37 AM
A jump of over 30 per cent has been witnessed in the number of malaria cases reported in the limits of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) this year.
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Over 2,200 cases have been reported in the district till July this year. Officials from King George Hospital (KGH) confirmed 17 malaria deaths till date this year. Last year, 26 deaths and 3,000 cases of malaria were reported, and more than half of the cases came from Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) areas of Visakhapatnam, according to statistics available with district medical and health officer Dr R Syamala.
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*(till July 2013)
Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Delhi & Lakshadweep States/UTs report July 2013 has not been received
Another excellent report out of India - go read the whole thing! - Ro
Updated: September 26, 2013 11:43 IST
Fudging biting facts
SUVOJIT BAGCHI
A section of government doctors in Chhattisgarh admits to gross under reporting of malarial deaths in the State
“Is it ever possible to find out the actual number of malarial deaths in Chhattisgarh?” asked an exasperated government doctor, who worked for many years in intensely malaria prone districts of central India.
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“The government will always say that the death is not due to malaria but because of fever of unknown origin. The Health Department refuses to accept [malaria] unless the blood smear test is positive,” said the doctor on conditions of anonymity.
Blood testing facility is a rarity in rural Chhattisgarh. More importantly, malarial parasite is a difficult organism to detect unless repeated tests are conducted, said the doctor.
A number of doctors, working in the State, told The Hindu that health officials often attribute malaria deaths to complications such as renal failure, severe anemia or adult respiratory distress syndrome and remove the “antecedent malaria” as the primary cause of death. “It is somewhat like deaths due to malnutrition. In that, too, the patient dies due to complications like infections, ditto for malaria,” said another doctor.
Ask any officer in the State Health Department, they will all privately agree that malarial deaths are grossly underreported and that they themselves don’t appreciate any of the subordinate staff reporting such deaths.
Moreover, systematic underreporting of malaria has totally ruined the resource base. If a district underreports malaria, it gets less resource like bed nets, drugs or diagnostics and thus weakens its own resource base.
“Finally, nobody would ever know the actual number of deaths [as people are not aware of blood tests in rural areas] and the Health Department will keep coming up with ridiculous death figures,” the government doctor said.
... Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC), working under NRHM, are mandated to record rural deaths in the State. Data released by VHSNC shows that 2,467 persons, including a large number of children, died from malaria or fever in 2012.
In the corresponding period, the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) announced death of only 90 persons, a number almost 28 times less than the NRHM figure, from malaria in Chhattisgarh. The data was provided by the State Health Department to NVBDCP.
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