Udaipur : After the presence of Chandipura virus in Udaipur district of Rajasthan, adjacent to Gujarat, the health department team is now on alert mode. Be it Udaipur district of Rajasthan or other nearby districts, survey has been started in all the districts. In Udaipur alone, this survey has been done in more than two and a half thousand houses and the number of surveys is increasing continuously. Currently, 13 villages have been surveyed, the rural area of the entire Udaipur is being screened.
Death due to Chandipura virus in Udaipur too
In fact, a 3-year-old child suddenly had a seizure while playing near his house in Balicha village located in Kherwada police station area of Udaipur. His hands and legs started getting crooked and he died. The same was the condition of a 5-year-old girl, she has been admitted to the ICU. This girl lives in Bavalwada village near Balicha village and now apart from these two villages, a survey of 2500 houses has been done including 11 other nearby villages. A letter has also been sent from Gujarat to the Rajasthan Health Department regarding Chandipura virus.
Doctors posted in these villages of Udaipur
Udaipur district CMHO Dr Shankar Bamaniya said that doctors have been deployed in Kherwada, Balicha and other villages of Udaipur bordering Gujarat. Apart from the pediatrician and staff, the Deputy CMHO is looking after the entire work. The travel history of the parents of the child who died is being collected. In the houses which are being surveyed, there is no update about Chandipura virus at present except the patients of common cough and cold.
The child’s death remains a mystery
Udaipur’s Deputy CMHO Dr Ankit says that information about the family of the 3-year-old child Himanshu Kharari, who died, has revealed that the family has not gone out for a month. They have done their routine work in the village itself. Himanshu himself has also not gone anywhere for a month, yet we are currently gathering information about how this virus came and how he died.
