ACTION TAKEN BY GOVT. OF INDIA TOWARDS PREVENTION & CONTROL OF AES/JE
BackTHE STEPS TAKEN BY GOVT. OF INDIA TOWARDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AES/JE ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
- JE vaccination in Routine vaccination was covered to 297 nos of districts and Adult vaccination covered for 31 nos of districts for the state of Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
- Re-orientation training course on AES/JE case management is a continuing process. Such orientating training courses were carried out in endemic states.
- Advisories to all the states are being sent to all the endemic states before the transmission session.
- The diagnostic facilities have been strengthened to 154 Sentinel Surveillance Hospital (SSH)and 15 Apex Referral Laboratories (ARL). These have been supplied with diagnostic kits free of cost from National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.
- The situation of all endemic states are reviewed before the transmission session. Guidelines were developed on AES/JE case management and on prevention and control of Entero-viruses which have been circulated to the states.