The Gujarat health department has intensified surveillance and containment activities after reporting three pediatric deaths and six confirmed Chandipura virus cases during the ongoing monsoon season. Health department sources said a three-year-old girl from Sabarkantha died at a government hospital on Friday, with her sample sent for laboratory confirmation as a suspected fourth fatality. On Saturday, two children aged one and four years from Kheda were shifted to Gandhinagar Civil Hospital after developing suspected symptoms.
Their laboratory reports are currently pending. According to the health department, preventive measures include surveillance, intra-residential spraying, cleanliness drives, mud wall filling, and communication with local Indian Medical Association (IMA) officials to facilitate timely referral of suspected cases to tertiary care hospitals based on clinical…
