Leptospirosis, typhoid, dengue and diarrhoea (LTDD) cases have begun to decline in some areas, says Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete.
“If you look at all the numbers across the board, the LTDDs has reduced compared with where they were in mid-February and a lot of it is the work being done in terms of the teams going into the areas, identifying cases and also working with the communities,” he said.
He said divisional medical officers and medical superintendents were clearly instructed to sort out the processes in how they managed communities with LTDD by providing quick and efficient service.
The medical personnel had been advised to redistribute resources and mobilise hospital services to help control the cases of LTDD with the correct response.
“If there are many doctors in a particular unit and there is a particular unit that is needing more doctors, they need to be able to mobilise and move them across to those areas.
“We’ve also seen that by working in those areas we’ve also been able to reduce people that are very sick and are admitted to the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Lautoka and Labasa.
“Because what happens with LTDDs they become very unwell and when they become very unwell they get admitted critically ill to these hospitals.”
Dr Waqainabete said the work of medical officials over the past few weeks had greatly assisted in the reduction of LTDD cases and health officials would continue with the monitoring process.
