Ngada NTT 'contributes' 3 Cases Of Death Due To Dengue Fever, The Majority Of Patients Are Taken In Critical Condition

NTT - The NTT Department of Health, Population and Civil Registration (DKKPS) reported that Ngada was the district with the most cases of DHF patients dying out of a total of eight deaths as of Tuesday, February 8.

"Until today, Ngada district is the district with the most cases of patients dying from dengue fever, namely three people," said Head of the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Section (P2PM) of the NTT DKKPS, Agusthina Rospita, as reported by Antara, Kupang, Tuesday, February 8.

He said the victims who died from dengue fever were children who were brought to the puskesmas too late for initial treatment. Supposedly, if a child has high fever in a row for three days, he or she is immediately taken to the Puskesmas for initial treatment and prevention so that it does not have a bad impact.

"Most of what happens is that when the child is critically ill, he or she is brought to the puskesmas or hospital for treatment, making it difficult to handle," he added.

The distribution of eight cases in NTT is one person in Kupang City, one person in Sikka district, one person in Nagekeo district, one person in Southwest Sumba (SBD) district, and one person in Central Sumba.

Until now, the number of dengue cases is also increasing. Last week, the number of dengue cases reached 766 cases. Now the number has reached 979 cases.

From that number, West Manggarai has always been the district with the highest dengue cases, which has now become 204 cases. Followed by the city of Kupang with 181 cases and the third is Sikka district with the number of cases reaching 136 cases.

With the number of dengue cases continuing to increase in NTT, the NTT Health Office appealed to residents to keep the surrounding environment clean so that it does not become a breeding ground for mosquito larvae.

The Health Office has also established mosquito larvae monitors in every house, to ensure that there are no places where mosquito larvae can breed.

Currently the Health Office in every district and city continues to carry out fogging or fumigation in every settlement to prevent the development of mosquito larvae and increase dengue cases in each area.