Nagpur: Anisha Gajanad Parate, a 14-year-old girl and a resident of Sai Nagar, is believed to have died of dengue fever at a private hospital on Wednesday. Anisha was admitted to a private hospital with fever and breathed her last on Wednesday. She is the tenth victim of the disease this year.
Anisha was not the only resident from central Nagpur who had contracted dengue fever. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has failed to control the outbreak of dengue, alleged independent corporator of the area Abha Pande.
Pande will sit on one-day hunger strike outside Mayor Nanda Jichkar’s chamber in NMC headquarters on Friday from 11am to 5pm. She has also informed the mayor about her demonstration. “I will protest against NMC’s ‘poor management’ of dengue situation that has assumed serious proportions in the last four months,” the senior corporator said.
She alleged there was lack of coordination among various departments in containing the outbreak in city. Residents from central Nagpur too alleged dengue control activities of the NMC were ineffective. Jaishree Thote, head of NMC’s malaria and filaria department, refused to comment stating she was on leave.
Recently TOI too had reported the disease was spreading steadily. Over 2,000 patients have tested positive as per RDK test of which 105 were confirmed by ELISA test, data from NMC’s malaria and filaria department revealed.
The larvicide oil the NMC uses to spray is of poor quality and has no impact in controlling the mosquito menace in city, said Umesh Tiwari, a resident of Sai Nagar. “NMC should be dissolved immediately for its failure in improving sanitation and also for not taking adequate measures to contain the dengue outbreak,” he demanded.
