Feaby Handana | Teraslampung. com
Kotabumi–At least three North Lampung residents died of dengue haemorrhagic fever during 2022.
“Since January until now, three dengue patients have died,” Acting Head of North Lampung Health Service Maya Natalia Manan said on Friday (11/18/2022).
Overall, Maya explained that the number of dengue cases since the beginning of the year has reached 127 cases. The number of DHF cases fluctuated every month. Most of the cases were found in September with 47 cases.
“The second occurred in January with 38 cases,” he explained.
Whenever they find a case of DHF, they always conduct an investigation to make sure the patient really has DHF or not. The search was carried out at the health center and the hospital, as well as the patient’s residence.
“After it is confirmed that we are indeed infected with DHF, we will take action such as fogging and also socializing the importance of keeping the environment clean for residents,” he said.
Separately, North Lampung Health Service Disease Prevention and Control Division Chief Dian Mauli said that cases of DHF have been detected nearly every month this year. Only in April they did not find the case.
DHF case details each month are January (38 cases), February (10 cases), March (1 case), April (0 cases), May (7 cases), June (15 cases), July (1 case), August (4 cases), September (47 cases), October (4 cases).
“The main key to preventing this disease is to do 3M, closing, burying and draining the water tanks so the mosquitoes don’t breed,” she explained.
Earlier, Muhammad Zio Alfarizi, a resident of Candimas village, Abung Selatan, North Lampung, reportedly died of dengue fever on Wednesday (11/15/2022) at around 7:20 PM WIB.
