10 November,2022 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey
A civic health worker gives Vitamin A, to improve immunity, to a kid at Rafi Nagar
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A series of reports by mid-day on the measles outbreak at Govandi prompted the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday to rush a high-level, multi-disciplinary team to Mumbai to take stock of the upsurge in the cases in the city. The team will assist the state health authorities in instituting public health measures and facilitate operationalisation of requisite control and containment measures.
The three-member Central team has experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), New Delhi and Regional Office for Health and Family Welfare, Pune. It is led by Dr Anubhav Srivastava, deputy director, integrated disease surveillance programme, NCDC.
The team will also go for field visits to investigate the outbreak.
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"We have been informed that a central team is going to visit the city. Right now, we are totally focusing on Govandi and are getting more suspected cases," said a civic official.
To ramp up vaccination, the BMC will set up 5 camps at Govandi's Rafi Nagar where three children died in just 48 hours due to suspected measles infection. "We are screening suspect cases and their samples are being sent for confirmation. We are also giving Vitamin A to children which is very much essential to strengthen their immunity."
