North 24 Parganas has become the worst hit area in the state of West Bengal when it comes to dengue cases. It has accounted for about one-third of the total 13,000 cases during this monsoon season.
The breeding grounds are spread all across the district–the vacants plots around houses in Bangur have also become part of the mosquito breeding grounds. According to Pallab Majumder, his father and aunt had died from dengue about 6 years ago.
During the July of 2024, his wife had died from the disease as well. Pallab, who is a resident of South Dumdum’s Bangur Avenue, is 30 years old and he was livid when he spoke to the news about the death of his wife.
Source: Indian Express
Pallab had said that some workers from the South Dumdum Municipality had visited his house after the death of his wife. That was all and nothing more happened since that visit. No attempts had been made by the municipality to curb the dengue cases, by spraying anti-larvae chemicals or to find the mosquito breeding spots.Â
Pallab, who works in a private bank, also mentioned that only a few people would come to the neighborhood to ask if anyone had a fever in the house. They would leave after noting it down. According to him, the under-construction building plot, which is currently empty, is one of the breeding spots of dengue cases.
For the past 10 years, that plot in the Bangur area in the district of North 24 Parganas has been full of rubbish. The under-construction site with a five-storey building structure stands just beside the plot. There is stagnant water in both of those plots. Even on informing the municipal officers, they had done nothing for them.
Source: Indian Express
Dengue Cases Have Caused The Death Of 8 People This Season
Pallab’s wife, Rinku, was amongst the 8 people who had been named in the government books against the column of death by dengue cases. Rinku was working with a private firm as an accountant.
After being diagnosed with dengue, she was admitted to a local nursing home during the early weeks of July. Her dengue situation became worse and she had to be transferred to the intensive care unit. The multi organ failure occurred on July 21 and she died from it.
The State Health Department had mentioned that over 13,000 people had been infected with dengue during the current season of monsoon. The sources also claimed that the people who are actually infected and actually died are greater than what had been officially mentioned.
Source: Indian Express
Aparna Halder, from the colony of Pramodnagar in Barasat, had lost her daughter, Sayanika, to dengue on July 11. She was in class VII at that time. Sayanaki had a fever when they took her to the Barasat State General Hospital.Â
She was kept in the CCU after being taken to the hospital on 6th July, where she was confirmed to be dengue positive. After that, she had been asked to move to the government hospital in Kolkata in the North 24 Parganas since her condition was deteriorating.
Since Sayanika’s dengue condition had worsened over the few days, she required an ambulance with ventilator services that would be able to take her to the hospital. Sayanika’s family spent 6000 INR to get the ambulance., taking her to RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.Â
Source: The Times Of India
Aparna, the mother had said that Sayanika didn’t live through that. According to her, the Barasat Municipality workers visited their home after Sayanika had died from Dengue. They had sprayed bleaching powder in their area and promised to clean the drains.Â
After that, no one had visited them and the residents had decided to get the drains cleaned on their own. A relative of Aparna had said that they wouldn’t be able to do that on an ongoing basis because they are not rich.
