Lok Sabha Question No. 1993 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-21
Subject: Dengue Cases
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: NISHIKANT  DUBEY, RAJESH PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1993 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 ST DECEMBER, 2018

## DENGUE CASES

## 1993. SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY: SHRI RAJESH PANDEY:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of dengue cases detected during the last two years, State/UT - wise;
- (b) the action taken by Government to tackle the disease;
- (c) whether the Government has put in place a ny mechanism to detect the cases of dengue; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a): The States /Union Territories (UTs) -wise number of dengue cases detected during the last two years is at Annexure I.
- (b): Government of India (GOI) has taken the following steps:
- Monitoring and supervision for early case detection, prevention and control.
- During 2018 till date, 17 advisories issued and programme implementation review on several occasions including with the States in 2 high level video conferences.
- Information  Education  Communication  ( IEC)/ Behaviour  Change  Communication (BCC) activities  to  disseminate  knowledge  for  prevention  and  control  throu advocacy meetings, review meetings, electronic and print media.
- Regional review meetings held in 2018 at Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh and Arunacha Pradesh to review the situation and implementation plan.
- (c)& (d): Yes.
- Free  diagnostic  facilities  provided  through  646  Sentinel  Surveillance  Hospi (SSHs) and 16 Apex Referral laboratories (ARLs) identified across the country. State/UT - wise number of SSHs and ARLs are at Annexure-I I & III .
- During 2018 till date, GOI supplied 6313Dengue and 2019 Chikungunya I mmunoglobulin M (IgM ) kits (1 Kit=96 tests) through National Institute of Virolog (NIV), Pune.

State/UT-wise details of number of dengue cases detected during the last two years

| Sl. No.   | State             |   2016 |   2017 |
|-----------|-------------------|--------|--------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |   3417 |   4925 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |     13 |     18 |
| 3         | Assam             |   6157 |   5024 |
| 4         | Bihar             |   1912 |   1854 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |    356 |    444 |
| 6         | Goa               |    150 |    235 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |   8028 |   4753 |
| 8         | Haryana           |   2493 |   4550 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |    322 |    452 |
| 10        | Jammu & Kashmir   |     79 |    488 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |    414 |    710 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |   6083 |  17844 |
| 13        | Kerala            |   7439 |  19994 |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |   3150 |   2666 |
| 15        | Meghalaya         |    172 |     52 |
| 16        | Maharashtra       |   6792 |   7829 |
| 17        | Manipur           |     51 |    193 |
| 18        | Mizoram           |    580 |    136 |
| 19        | Nagaland          |    142 |    357 |
| 20        | Odisha            |   8380 |   4158 |
| 21        | Punjab            |  10439 |  15398 |
| 22        | Rajasthan         |   5292 |   8427 |
| 23        | Sikkim            |     82 |    312 |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu        |   2531 |  23294 |
| 25        | Tripura           |    102 |    127 |
| 26        | Telangana         |   4037 |   5369 |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh     |  15033 |   3092 |
| 28        | Uttrakhand        |   2146 |    849 |
| 29        | West Bengal       |  22865 |  37746 |
| 30        | A&N Islands       |     92 |     18 |
| 31        | Chandigarh        |   1246 |   1125 |
| 32        | Delhi             |   4431 |   9271 |
| 33        | D&N Haveli        |   4161 |   2064 |
| 34        | Daman & Diu       |     89 |     59 |
| 35        | Puducherry        |    490 |   4568 |
| Total     | Total             | 129166 | 188401 |

## State/UT-wise number of Sentinel Surveillance Hospitals for Chikungunya and Dengue in Country

| Sl. No.   | State                |   Number of Sentinel Surveillance Hospitals |
|-----------|----------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 1         | A & N Islands        |                                           3 |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh       |                                          19 |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh    |                                           7 |
| 4         | Assam                |                                          28 |
| 5         | Bihar                |                                           7 |
| 6         | Chandigarh           |                                           1 |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh         |                                           7 |
| 8         | Delhi                |                                          35 |
| 9         | Daman & Diu          |                                           2 |
| 10        | Dadra & Nagar Haveli |                                           1 |
| 11        | Goa                  |                                           3 |
| 12        | Gujarat              |                                          40 |
| 13        | Haryana              |                                          25 |
| 14        | Himachal Pradesh     |                                           7 |
| 15        | Jammu                |                                          10 |
| 16        | Jharkhand            |                                           5 |
| 17        | Karnataka            |                                          32 |
| 18        | Kerala               |                                          32 |
| 19        | Lakshadweep          |                                           1 |
| 20        | Madhya Pradesh       |                                          49 |
| 21        | Maharashtra          |                                          40 |
| 22        | Manipur              |                                           4 |
| 23        | Meghalaya            |                                           5 |
| 24        | Mizoram              |                                           2 |
| 25        | Nagaland             |                                           2 |
| 26        | Odisha               |                                          36 |
| 27        | Puducherry           |                                           5 |
| 28        | Punjab               |                                          33 |
| 29        | Rajasthan            |                                          50 |
| 30        | Sikkim               |                                           3 |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu           |                                          30 |
| 32        | Telangana            |                                          23 |
| 33        | Tripura              |                                           3 |
| 34        | Uttar Pradesh        |                                          45 |
| 35        | Uttarakhand          |                                           8 |
| 36        | West Bengal          |                                          43 |
|           | Total                |                                         646 |

## Details of Apex Referral Laboratories for Chikungunya and Dengue in the Country

1. National Institute of Virology, Pune
3. National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore
2. National Center for Disease Control (former NICD), Delhi
4. Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
5. Post- Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh
7. ICMR Virus Unit, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata
6. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
8. Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Dibrugarh, Assam
9. King's Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chennai
10. 11.B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad.
11. 10.Institute of Preventive Medicine, Hyderabad
12. 12.State Public Health Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
13. 13.Defence Research Development and Establishment, Gwalior
14. 15.Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Bhubaneswar, Odisha
15. 14.National Institute for Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH) (Former RMRCT), ICMR, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
16. 16.Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam