In The Last 3 Months Dengue Fever Has Reached 181, The Gunung Kidul Health Office Predicts To Exceed The Number Of Cases In 2021

Officers carry out fogging to anticipate the spread of the Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) outbreak (Photo: ANTARA)

GUNUNG KIDUL - The Health Office of Gunung Kidul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, recorded 181 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) from January to March this year. Two of them died.

Head of the Section for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (P2PM) of the Gunung Kidul Health Office, Diah Prasetyorini, detailed that in January there were 133 cases, in February 39 cases and March 9 cases.

"So during the past 3 months, there have been 181 cases (DHF). Of these, two cases resulted in death. The two cases appeared in different months", said Diah in Gunung Kidul, Antara, Monday, March 21.

He said the number was almost equal to the total number of deaths from dengue fever in 2021. In 2021 a total of three people died. Currently, the trend of dengue cases in Gunung Kidul has decreased. The January-March 2021 period is lower than that period in 2022.

"In 2021 it will be lower than 2022, in the same month, January, February, and March", he said.

Diah predicts the number of dengue cases this year could exceed last year. Entering the initial three months, there have been 181 cases, while in 2021 there will be a total of 189 dengue cases.

According to him, the high number of dengue cases at the beginning of this year was due to the lack of public awareness of prevention efforts, especially the eradication of mosquito nests (PSN) and monitoring of larvae.

For this reason, his party asked the community to regularly clean mosquito nests as an effort to prevent dengue.

"If DHF is more about PSN and awareness to carry out the one house one movement periodic larva monitoring independently (Jumantik)", he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Gunung Kidul Health Office, Dewi Irawaty, said that the socialization of the PSN movement and one house one Jumantik was intensively carried out to all levels of society. According to him, what is needed now is the active role of the community.

"We have intensified socialization regarding the prevention of DHF, but again the community must take an active role in preventing the spread of DHF. Because prevention efforts really need community participation", he said.