3713 dengue positive cases have been detected by Rapid Diagnostic Test/ screening from 1st April to 20th Oct 2026 in Churachandpur district of Manipur.
According to data obtained from Chief Medical Officer office, total number of dengue related deaths is 9. However, ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) test confirms 4 as dengue related deaths and the remaining 5 remains unverified.
On Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner Churachandpur Krishna Kumar, Chief Medical Officer Churachandpur, Dr. Henkhoneng Mate and Medical Superintendent of District Hospital Dr. Sania Monica jointly briefed the media at deputy commissioner conference room about the prevailing situation of dengue in the district.
Medical Superintendent of Churachandpur District hospital Dr. Sania Monica said that around 910 dengue patients have been admitted in the district hospital since April this year.
She said 9 deaths have been reported, out of which 4 has been confirmed as dengue through Elisa testing and 5 are unverified.
The medical superintendent said medical teams in the district hospital are working to ensure that all patients admitted are accessed, monitored and managed in accordance with the established treatment protocols.
"From the month of April, district hospital has catered to approximately 910 dengue admitted patients in both medicine and children wards. out of which, the recovery rate is 99.67 percent and the remaining 0.33 percent are the patients who expired. But these patients are those associated with complications and other diseases like liver and kidney diseases and some are immune compromise as well" , Monica said.
The medical superintendent said the district hospital have also received patients from other hospitals who have been referred in a very critical conditions in ICUs.
With regard to blood centre in district hospital, she said the license of the centre expired since 2023 and it was only this year with initiation of the deputy commissioner that the license could be renewed.
"Because of the renewal, we could cater to so many netizens of the district. For dengue, the hospital has issued 126 units of fresh blood including to all the private hospitals which are in the district. Out of 9 registered, 4 deaths have been confirmed dengue by eliza test conducted at district hospital and 5 are unverified", Monica said.
Chief Medical Officer, Henkhoneng Mate said health department have been trying its level best ,doing surveillance, treatment and whatever is possible on their level.
"But the spread of dengue cannot be checked by health department alone, so i want to appealed to all the communities, public leaders and line department that even though dengue preventions begins at home, the success depends on the whole community not on one department alone", she added.
Henkhoneng said, “What we need to know is the aedes mosquito that transmit dengue only breeds in only clean and stagnant water, those waters that are collected around our homes, neighborhood. Even small amount of water can be breeding place for dengue and source of spread of dengue”.
She urged every citizen of the district to empty and scrub water containers every week to remove mosquito eggs, cover water storage tanks and containers tightly and to remove all discarded tyres and bottles, coconut shells and any other items that can collect rain water and to keep drains, gutters and surrounding clean to prevent water stagnation.
Urging people to use mosquito repellants, window screens and protective clothing even during nigh time, Henkhoneng also said," let us allow health workers and surveilance teams to inspect breeding sites and cooperate with them so that dengue control activities would be successful".
The chief medical officer requested citizen to seek medical attention in case they have fever headache or any signs and symptoms of dengue.
Deputy Commissioner Krishna Kumar said from medical department fogging is going on at different places and they have visited different places for source reduction and for awareness.
Fogging is done free of cost and dengue test is also available in district hospital free of cost said Krishna while adding that hard works and efforts are made by medical teams under the leaderships of chief medical officer and medical superintendent district hospital, malaria officers and surveillance officer who is also compiling date for entire district.
Number of tests conducted by district hospital and private hospitals are collected by surveillance officer and there is a dedicated portal where all the cases are uploaded.
The deputy commissioner sad dedicated beds for dengue patients and medical officers of community health Centre and primary health Centre are instructed for the same and that CMO and MS are also monitoring the cases.
“During analysis and review meeting we came to know that most of the cases are coming from Tuibong sub division and Churachandpur sub division”, Krishna added.
Due to rapid increase in population and urbanisation, Krishna said there are challenges but people also need to understand the effort which are being made by district hospital and awareness about preventive mechanisms which need to be device and also adopted.
Fogging teams are also visiting all areas as and when they receive information from society and areas. Source reduction team also highlights all the precautionary measures which need to be taken.
From district hospitals, pamphlets of 'dos and donts' have been prepared and the only things is that we all have to be serious. it is a community effort and we all have to work to work together as a team
The Hills Journal
K. Salbung, Churachandpur
Manipur-795128
