Garut Community Urged To Beware Of Threats Of DHF And TB

Secretary of the Garut District Health Office Leli Yuliani/Antara

GARUT - The Garut Regency Health Office, West Java, appealed to the public to be aware of the threat of dengue fever and tuberculosis during the rainy season by always implementing a healthy lifestyle. Then, immediately consult a doctor if you have the disease.

"In the rainy season, we must anticipate dengue and tuberculosis," said Secretary of the Garut District Health Office, Leli Yuliani, to reporters in Garut, reported by Antara, Monday, November 1.

He said that during the rainy season, cases of disease often arise that affect all levels of society, including dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and tuberculosis, also known as TB.

Garut Health Office, he said, in addition to anticipating the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, also prevented and provided understanding to the public regarding the threat of dengue and tuberculosis.

"People need to tighten a clean and healthy lifestyle and also implement strict health protocols to anticipate diseases that can appear in the rainy season and pandemics," he said.

He conveyed that TB disease does not only appear during the rainy season, but can also be contracted from people who suffer from the disease through the air due to poor ventilation in the house.

If there are people who are sick with TB, he said, they must immediately undergo an examination and then be treated according to the doctor's advice until it is confirmed that the illness is cured.

"Now we are activating cadres to recognize the symptoms of TB, if they find anyone with symptoms like that, they are brought to the health center, checked for phlegm," said Leli.

He conveyed the threat of another disease, namely DHF, this case must be a concern for all people by keeping the environment clean so that there are no mosquito nests that are the cause of the emergence of DHF disease.

Garut Health Office, he continued, has taken anticipatory steps by socializing the threat of DHF to the community and doing fumigation in the community in areas prone to the spread of DHF.

"The community already knows what has been done, but we will re-socialize the procedure for avoiding dengue. We have also made preparations, starting with fumigation and others," he said.