Monkeypox Alert in UP: Alert in UP regarding monkeypox, the health department issued advisory

Monkeypox Virus Alert in UP:: Monkeypox cases have reached Delhi after Kerala. Given this, the Health Department in Uttar Pradesh is also on alert. The department has made the same preparations regarding this as it did for Covid. Like reserving beds in hospitals, contact tracing, and alerts to RRT teams. Because of the situation, DG Health Dr. Lilly Singh has issued an advisory to medical officers across the state.

 Director of Health Department of UP, Communicable Diseases Dr. AK Singh told that 10-10 beds in all Covid hospitals in the state have been asked to be reserved for monkeypox patients. Just as the RRT teams were on alert in the districts regarding Covid, in the same way they are on alert for this. Contact tracing, sampling, and isolating them are instructions to do the same things as they were at the time of Covid.

Dr. AK Singh said that the Kovid shirt used to spread in time. Whereas it spreads over up to 21 days. The second is that Kovid spreads after meeting an infected person for a while. But monkeypox will spread on prolonged contact. There is a possibility of spreading it after being in contact for 1-2 days. He told that this is a new virus of the smallpox group. In this, rashes start on the face, accompanied by fever, body pain, vomiting, and redness in the eyes. In this, the isolelash remains until all the wounds are healed.

 Lucknow CMO Dr. Manoj Agarwal gave this information

 Lucknow's CMO Dr. Manoj Aggarwal told that even here Kovid Hospital has been kept on alert. At present, no case has come nor has there been a need to take samples. But when the samples are taken, they will be sent to NIV Pune.

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