POBA blames authorities for chikungunya endemic

Environmentalists are blaming the two Dhaka city corporations and the Health Department of the government for their belated response to the chikungunya virus, by which time it had already grown to endemic proportions, reports UNB.

Chikungunya spread extensively all over the country during the long silence of the authorities that they characterized as a form of negligence.

Environmental rights body Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) came up with the allegation at a human chain organised by 20 like-minded environmental organisations demanding effective measures to prevent the painful disease that is transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, said a press release.

Speakers at the human chain said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the country’s foremost authority in the field, had found 513 cases of chikungunya in the blood and saliva samples of 643 people, in just the last three months. a number of 513 people had been identified infected by the disease during the last three months - an infection rate of80 percent. 

It means that Health Department’s own findings proves how extensively the disease has spread as 80 percent of the examined samples are infected by chikungunya.

POBA blames authorities for chikungunya endemic

Environmentalists are blaming the two Dhaka city corporations and the Health Department of the government for their belated response to the chikungunya virus, by which time it had already grown to endemic proportions, reports UNB. Chikungunya spread extensively all over the country during the long silence of the authorities that they characterized as a form of negligence. Environmental rights body Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) came up with the allegation at a human chain organised by 20 like-minded environmental organisations demanding effective measures to prevent the painful disease that is transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes, said a press release. Speakers at the human chain said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the countrys foremost authority in the field, had found 513 cases of chikungunya in the blood and saliva samples of 643 people, in just the last three months. a number of 513 people had been identified infected by the disease during the last three months - an infection rate of80 percent. It means that Health Departments own findings proves how extensively the disease has spread as 80 percent of the examined samples are infected by chikungunya.