PMC initiates disease surveillance in city

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has started a first-of-its-kind initiative involving comprehensive and continuous disease surveillance in the city.

- Vicky Pathare

PUNE:

The initiative intends to track and prevent the spread of communicable, vector-borne, and water-borne diseases across the city, PMC officials said on Monday.

The initiative has been launched last week, considering the recent outbreak of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and prior incidents of Zika, Chikungunya, Covid-19 and swine flu reported in Pune.

Dr Nina Borade, health chief of the PMC who is the brain behind the initiative, said that proactive surveillance and vigilance plans will ensure prevention and better preparedness for future outbreaks.

Strict monitoring
"We have started strict monitoring of all communicable diseases, water- and vector-borne diseases. As part of the initiative, both public and private healthcare professionals and institutes have been involved. We aim to curb the spread of diseases and safeguard public health effectively before outbreaks," she said.