To,
The Hon'ble Minister
Health & family wealfare
Manipur
Lamka, August 05, 2016
Subject: Appeal for urgent intervention with regards to the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis in Churachandpur and request for approval of Adult vaccination.
Respected Sir,
The Siamsinpawlpi would like to bring to your kind attention the massive outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis ( JE ) since the past two months, i.e., June and July in Manipur's Churachandpur District.
With reference to the Operational guidelines on Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination in India published under the Immunization Division, Department of Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 2010, the transmission season of the JE virus for Manipur State has been highlighted between the months of June to September. Similarly, we are also aware that the vaccination program has been focussed for children between the age group of 1-15.
In this regard, I would like bring to your attention that the outbreak of JE in Churachandpur town has already claimed FIVE lives among the Six patients who were found positive. The ELISA Tests has been conducted on seventeen patients from which, the following statistics is presented below:
POSITIVE 06
EQUIVOCAL 06
NEGATIVE 03
DEATH 04
Source: District Hospital, Churachandpur Data as on 5th August 2016.
Due to the mass vaccination campaign for children between the age group of 1-15 during 2014-15, no positive cases have been reported among the age group so far, All the positive JE cases found till date are adults between the age group of 19-50.
As a result, oit is clearly evident that JE infection among adults is spreading rapidly in our District and is taking place as per the Transmission Session pattern indicated in the Operational Guidelines; as per pattern, the Peak Session of the outbreak is expected for Four Months which will continue till the month of September (Annexure-I).
Hence, the Siamsinpawlpi would like to request your capable authority to immediately declare Churachandpur District as ENDEMIC DISTRICT and thereby approve adult vaccination at the earliest possible time. Without your immediate intervention, there is a clear indication that we will end up losing more valuable lives with each passing day.
We would also like to humbly request you to kindly make sure that the adult vaccination take place in time to mitigate further dreadful outbreak of JE before the Transmission Seassion begins in 2017.
Thanking you Sir.
Place: LAMKA, churachandpur
Date: 5th August 2016
LIANZAPAU SAMTE
President
SIAMSINPAWLPI
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
Memo No. 01 SSPP-GHQ/PRE/ADM-I/2016(383)
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