Dengue haemorrhagic fever generally breaks out in Yangon, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi regions and Kayin and Mon states, a special emphasis must be placed on controlling DHF in rural and urban areas, especially at basic education schools for schoolchildren.
As primary students under nine years old are immature to resist the impacts of DHF, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education have to jointly establish mosquito-free schools with momentum. It aims to improve the school health measures as well as contribute to healthy and happy learning of schoolchildren.
In this regard, not only parents and guardians but also teachers and officials of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education are responsible for implementing the aim to shape mosquito-free schools. Moreover, local authorities at different levels are to urge the residents to actively participate in mosquito-free measures as part of efforts to strictly control the outbreak of dengue haemorrhagic fever at home and schools.
Actually, there is no specific medicine to be used in treating DHF patients. But, preventive measures against the disease are the best treatment for monitoring the situation of the disease. As such, public awareness about the danger and symptoms of DHF must be staged on a wider scale. Officials from relevant departments and social organizations have to participate in the activities of combatting mosquitoes.
Combatting mosquito is a primary task for taking preventive measures of DHF. As such, all the people have to join the campaigns of shaping public residences and schools to be free from Aedes mosquitoes and larvae by cleaning up waste and unnecessary storage of water around the society. If so, the outbreak of DHF in society can be controlled to some extent.
As a nature, the Aedes mosquito hatches eggs in clean water and bites humans in the daytime to cause infection. Such a mosquito-borne disease infects humans one after another mostly under 15 years of age but all persons of all ages can also suffer from such disease. Symptoms of the disease appear in humans after having been bitten for four to six days on average.
Generally, the patients will vomit coffee-coloured ones and excrete black ones. Red spots will appear on the skin of patients with low temperature and blood pressure and suffer from pain in the stomach. If so, patients have to receive medical treatments at nearby hospitals and clinics in time. Moreover, people living nearby the patients have to clean up their residences and take care of their health conditions.
Combatting mosquito is a primary task for taking preventive measures of DHF. As such, all the people have to join the campaigns of shaping public residences and schools to be free from Aedes mosquitoes and larvae by cleaning up waste and unnecessary storage of water around the society. If so, the outbreak of DHF in society can be controlled to some extent.
