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P KEJ N M KLUM T

DENGGIJILID 3

(Keratan Akhbar 2011-2012 : Berita Harian, Utusan

Malaysia, New Straits Times & The Star)

Disusun oleh :

PERPUSTAKAAN NEGARA MALAYSIA

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Denggi 1 003

kompaun

sehtngga

Julai

KUALA

LUMPUR 17

Ogos

- Sejurolah

~ 3

kompaun bernilai

RM348,010 dikeluarkan

oleh Kementerian

Kesihatan bagi tujuan'

kawalan wabak denggi

sepanjang Julai lalu.

Ketua Pengarah

Kesihatan, Datuk

Dr.

Hasan Abdul Rahman

berkata, sejumlah 180 kes

telah didaftar untuk

tindakan mahkamah

dengan 45 kes berjaya

diselesaikan

membabitkan denda

RM24,930.

M e n u r u t n y a ~

tindakan

diambil menerusi Akta

Pemusnahan Serangga

Pembawa Penyakit

1975

dan bagi tempoh Januari

bingga Julai lepas,

sebanyak 8. 557 kompaun

dikeluarkan yang bernilai

RM3,602,340.

Sejumlah 1,073 kes

telah didaftark

n

untuk

tindakan mahkamah dan

dalam masa yang sarna

sejumlah 667 kes telah

diselesaikan'dengan

sejumlah RM140 910

denda dikenakan,

katanya dalam

s tu

kenyataan di sini hari

ini

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alacca

plans

mozzy

project

to

fight dengue

By R S N MURAU

[email protected] .

my

MALACCA Plans are under way to

release genetically-modified mos

quitoes (GMM) here pending

approval from the Health Ministry

and the state government.

State Health, Project Rehabilita

tion, Sub-Urban Development and

NGOs Committee chairman Datuk

Seet Har Cheow said the Malacca

Health Department had initiated the

plan as part of its dengue-fighting

initiative.

This

is

our long-term plan to

eradicate dengue in the state which

appears to be on the rise despite the

many preventative measures taken ·

over the years. .

We have identified Bukit Nangka

in Alor Gajah for our pi lot project.

However, this depends on the

approval from the federal and state

governments, he said,-adding that

the state government would endorse

the plan after tabling it at an exco

meeting soon.

Seet said the pilot project would

be gradually extended to other parts

of the state if everything went ahead

as planned.

He added that the state govern-

ment would call for field tests and

laboratory experiments before the

mosquitoes were re1eased.

Seet said careful testing was cru

cial to prevent a possible vacuum in

the ecosystem.

According to him, the plan will be

the first scientific method used to

combat dengue in the state.

Seet said dengue-related cases

were still rampant despite the launch

and intense promotion

of

th

Communication for Behavioural

Impact campaign recently.

A1 r Gajah MP Tan Sri Fong Chan

Onn said field experiments and labo

ratory tests conducted prior to

releasing genetically-modified mos

quitoes would ensure that the plan

would not be detrimental to people.

The

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Jake proactive action to

fight

lengue, says

expert

By

LOH

FOON FONG

[email protected]

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia n,eeds to monitor

the dengue epidemic and implement control

measures

before

it hits rather

than do things

retrospectively, said lJ renowned expert

on

m ~ g i n g

infectious d i s ~

a s e s

The

programme director of the

Singapore

bases Emerging Infectious

Diseases

at the

Dune-NUS Graduate Medical School Prof Dr

Duane Gubler

said

Malaysia's

surveillante

, approach was stiU reactive surveiUancerath-

.er than

prQactive.

_

:

V l}

m o n i t o ~

it

retrospectively, but what I

am suggesting is monito r it prospectively,

said

Dr Gubler, a former dengue branch c h i ~ f

at the United States . or D i s ~ a s e Control and

Prevention for 15 years.

He was among tlie experts who shared their

expetti5e

at the 4th

Intensive

Workshop

on

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes yesterday.

He said

the dengue

infection

cycle in the

community

moved silently and

there

was

usu

ally

a

lag

time

oefore

the virus

picked

an epi-

demiC

strain. ,

, Vou have a

period

of two or three months

that you can initiate control

and

reduce the

impact, he

said. ,

The

surveillance approach

here depends

on

physicians

sending their samples to the World

Health Organisation laboratory at Universiti

Malaya

but a

good, active epidemiological and

virological

surveillan(e that

allows

monitoring

of the virus in the community

is

mucn needed,

be said.

Dr Gubler said Malaysia had good entomo

logic capacity

but

lacked

in epidemiologic

and

the

virologic capacities.

.

Policy

makers had to be serious about the

efforts

and allocate

funds far

the

infrastructUre

for mosquito control and vaccine

deliverY,

he

said, adding that most coun'tries in the South

East Asia

did

not allocate enough funds .

The

Star September

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Teresa Kok with Toxorhynchites mosquitoes and larvae which will be

re

leased at a dengue

ho

tspo

t.

-

Picture

by Nurul

Shafina

emenon

Anti Aedes m o ~ q u i t o s

released

SUBANG

JAYA:

Th ubang Jaya Muni

ip

al

Council

(MP

J)

r nU1'

J

as d

anoth.

r 400

To

orhynchit .

mo qui

toes at Kampung

ri

Arnan Puchong. in

its

efforts

to

fight and erad

ica dengu

ffi

iating at

th

e vent was puteh m mb r

of parl am nt Tere a Kok. Th vent

wa

s or

ganis d

in coUaboration with

Univ riti

a

ins

'

Malaysia (U M) and

ClMB

.

following

a m

m-

orandum of under tanding sign ed in July.

along with a

RM60,000

allocation.

Th e location is a hotspot which record d a

high number of d

ngu

e cas s recently.

MPSJ

balth dir ctor Dr Roslan Moham ed

Hu

in

sa

id

in

Jun that th y had

pI

a d

60

rno quito larvae trapping d vi

ce (MLTO)

at

Jalan Bistari 1. Jalan stari 2, lalan

Bi

tari

3,

Jalan Arnan 1. Jalan Arnan 2 and .lalan Thqwa.

After the e

xp

eriment, the r sults showed a

high number of Aedes breeding spots at tb

location

,

he said.

Roslan said

th

e e

xp

erim nt would b eval-

uat d regularly, with

th.

fin

al valuation

to

b

don in ix months. If u

ce

ssful ,

th

ouncil

will

·introduc more of th m quitoe and

MLTO at oth r sit s.

H

>

s

aid

d

ngu

cas s in

tb

.

COUll

il

muni

-

ipality had redu d

thi

s y ar , from 1,359 cases

last year to 135

cas

up

till 0

tob

r

this

y ar.

According to U M ntom logis t Prof Abu

Hassan Ahmad Toxorhyncbi tes an liv up to

on

e month. H said

th

public ne d not fear

th ese mosquito s as

tb

y fed on plant nec tar

rather than human blood.

Toxorhynchites can grow up to 1.9cm in

I ngth and has a wing pan of2.4cm.l

ts

larva

ed on til larvae of otb r

rno

quito .

Also,

th

e

Toxorhyn

hit s

ar

tJu' tiro s

larger than the d s

mo

squito s.

The ev nt also saw th launch of th 0 ngue

quad

for JKP

Zon 12. - y

a

rhana

Syed

okman

New

Straits

Times 3

November

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ENGUE

Wolbachia

solution

to

l ill

mosquitoes

T

HIS year, along with many

thousands

of

others resid

in

g

in

Malaysia, I co

nt r

acted

dengue. It wasn t a pleasant ex

perience, though others h

ave

fared

much worse.

Dengue is inc

ur

ab le but it is not

unstoppabl

e

A discovery ar ising from re

sea rch by Professor Sco tt O Neill of

the Un iversity

of

Queens land,

backed by the Bill and Me

lind

a

Gates

Foundation, offers a way to

stop dengue and make Malays ia

free

of

t

hi

s di

sease

forever.

There is a parasite

ca lled Wol

bachia

w h

ic

h ca n

prev

e

nt

mosquitoes from ever passing on

dengue fever.

t

ca

n also be passed to the of f

spring of mosqui toes and shortens

their

li

ves by hal f

On

ce introd

u

ce

d into a mosquito

population,

it will

c

ontinu

e sp

rea

d

ing until ail mo

sq

ui toes in the area

are

in f

ected. The

re

s

ult

wi

ll

be that

dengue w

ill

no longer be s

pr

ea

d to

hum ans

The

sco

urgewi

ll

be at an end and

no one wi

ll

die from

it

anymore

Wolbac

hi

a-i

nf

ected m

os

quito

es

are being

re

l

ease

d in tri als in Thai

land and Vietnam.

Sponsored by the

Gates

Foun

dation, this is to ascertai n how the

s

tr

ategy fares

in

the wi ld.

I note that there a

re

no

Wol

bachia trials in

Ma

l

ays

ia.

Should the

se

tri als pro

ve

suc-

cessf

ul

-

as

it seems

ve

ry l ike l

could the Mal

ays

ian governme

nt

move

as

fast as poss ible to infect

The Wo lbachia bacte

a

ca

n prevell t mosqu itoes f rom p ssitlg 11

de

ngue eve

r

the l

oca

l pop

ul

ation

of

mosq

uitoes

with Wo lbachi a?

Doing

so

would save many

li

ves

and

elimin

ate the m

as

sive annual

me

di

cal costs

of ca

ring

fo

r

te

ns

of

thou

sa

nds

of

dengue

vict im

s

Let us make Malaysia dengue

fr

ee

.

lent ne Cawley,

Kuala Lumpur

,

New

Straits Times 3

November

2 11

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Dengueon

.

the

rise

A

filepix of

r

Roslan holding

up two of the

larvae samples

that were

collected from

a site in Subang

Jaya

Seve·ral

public

places

slapped

with

compounds for breeding Aedes

SEVERAL

prominent

hQtels,

tourist attraGtions

.

and places

of. worship in areas under the

Subang jaya Municipal Council's (MPSj) juris

diction have been slapped t compounds for

having Aedes m o ~ q u i t o breeding grounds

within their premises.

MPSj

Health Department director Dr Roslan

Mohamed

Hussin said 32

Aedes breeding

grounds had .been found

in

_several p u l i

places, including Sunway

Lagoon

Theme Park,

Holiday

Villa

Hotel, Palace

of the

Golden

Horses, a go-kart circuit in SS12

Subang

jay

a,

Kinrara

Golf Club,

and

the former Petaling '

District

Land Offi<;e in

S516

Subang jaya.

Citing

t e MPSj's statistical data on

Aedes

breeding ground

in

public

places

for

the

period of january till October 2011, Dr Roslan

said: Of

the

32 sites,

17

have

been slapped

With

compounds.

The others were issued with notices as the

premises were not occupied.

A

compound of RM500 would

be

issued for

each

Aedes

mosquito breeding ground

found.

He

said MPSJ had, for the period ofJanuary

till

October

this

year,

issued

506 compounds

for Aedes mosquito breeding grounds found in

various premises including

homes and

places

ofworship.

Up till Nov

19,410

cases

have been report

ed

in

areas under the MPS]'s administration, of

which

217

were positive for

dengue,

said Dr

. Roslan.

MPSJ president

Datuk

Asmawi

Kasbi urged

those responsible for overSeeing the running

of public places and developers to monitor

their premises to ensure that there

are

no

Aedes

mosquito breeding grounds in their

areas.

I The

council has

the authority to

issue: sum-

monses,

and take the party

to

court if neces-

sary, he said.

During the MPSJ full o ~ r d meeting, Asmawi

reminded

councillors

to not freely comment

on

sensitive

issues

like the

2012

Budget

and

suggested that they refe.r to the Procedure

Guidelines

for

Councillors of Local Authorities

issued

by

the state government for further

details

on

the ethics

and

procedures to be

observed by coundllors.

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Schools

·

urged

to

take

a n t i ~ e d e s

measures

PUTRAJAYA School administrations

re

urged

to ensure

th t

their

premises do not become breeding

grounds for Aedes mosquitos.

They have been advised to clean

toilet bowls and water tanks before

the new school term starts on Tues

day.

Director-General of Health Datuk

Dr Hassan Abdul Rahman said

this

was because checks by Jhe Health

Ministry on 100 schools nationwide

had r e v ~ ~ that 15 of them had

turned into.breeding grounds for the

Aedes mosquitos.

Water tanks where the water can

not be drained should have mos

quito-proof lids. Also, use chemical

and biologij:al agents to prevent the

breeding of Aedes mosquitos, he

said in a statement here yesterday.

He said the matter should not be

taken lightly as dengue still posed a

serious threat to humans.

Hassan said19,682 cases of dengue

fever were reported from January to

Dec 24 this year, compared with

45,684 cases

fo

r the same period last

year, while 36 deaths from dengue

. fever were reported for the same

period compared with 133 deaths

last year.

He added th t total of 429 cases

of dengue fever were reported in the

51st week of 2011 (Dec 18 to

24)

with

no deaths recorded, compared wit

522 cases with two deaths the week

before.

Be

m

am

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429 kes denggi

sep nj ng

minggu lep s

KUALA

LUMPUR

31

Dis. -

. Sebanyak 429 kes demam

denggi tanpa kematian

dilaporkan bagi tempoh

18

sehingga 24 Disember

lalu berbanding 522 kes

dengan dua kematian

pada minggu

sebelumnya.

Ketua Pengarah

Kesihatan, Datuk Seri

Dr

Hasan Abdul Rahman

berkata, kes demam

denggi pada minggu

ke-

51

menunjukkan

penurun n

93 kes,

n mun

terdapat enam

buah negeri yang

mengalami peningkatan.

Enam negeri tersebut

adalah lohor sebanyak

empat kes, Perlis (dua),

Sabah (dua), Kelantan

(dua), Pahang (satu)

d n

Melaka (satu).

Selain itu,

peningkatan terhadap

jurnlah lokaliti wabak

denggi di 22 daerah yang

dipantau seluruh negara

turut

meningkat kepada

99 lokaliti berbanding 97

sebelumnya, katanya

dalam satu kenya

t n

. akhbar.

Hasan berkata, terdapat

tiga kawasan panas

dikenal pasti pada

minggu lepas yang

melibatkan

32

kes

demam denggi.

Dua daripadanya

adalah di Selangor iaitu

Pangsapuri Taman Bukit

Ke

nangan

d n

Pangsapuri Baiduri

Bandar Tasik Kesuma di

Hulu Langat ser

t di

z

on

Klang Lama melibatkan

Vista

An

gkasa.

Oleh i

tu

, kami harap

semua pihak bekerjasama

dalam mengambil

langkah-langkah

me

ncegah dan

menghapuskan

temp t

pembiakan nyamuk

aedes terut

m

a kolarn

hiasan, pasu bunga dan

landskap yang boleh

menakung air, katanya.

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Kesdenggi

menin .

satu kematian

r

KUALA

LUMPUR

12

Jan. -

JmnIah kes demam .

denggi menuhJllkkan .

peningkatan apabila

merekodkan sejumlah

4 ~

kes dengan satu

kematian dilaporkan

berbanding 350 kes pada

rtiinggu sebelumnya.

Ketua Pengarah

Kesihatan, Datuk

Dr

.

Hasan

:Abdul

Rahman

berkata,

p e n i r t g k ~ n

90

kes itu melibatkan

minggu

pertama

tahun

ini iaitu bermula 1

I

sehingga

7 Janum

lalu.

Selangor merupakan

safah satu negeri

daripada sembilap.negeri

yang

e n c a t a t k ~

peningkatan terhadap

jumlah e s ,ci emam- .

tersebut.

Sebanyak'

61

kes

meningkat di negen

berkenaan

diikuti

Johor

11

kes; Perak (10), Melaka

8), Kedah (6), Negeri

Sembilan

(3), .

Pahang

3),

Terengganu (2) dan

Wilayah Persekutuan

Kuala Lumpur dan

Putrajaya (2), katanya

dalam satu kenyataan di

sini hari ini.

Menurutnya, satu

kematjan dilaporkan itu

membabitkan seorang

wanita berusia 35 tahun

di Puttajay a setelah

mengalami demam

berulang kali dan

disahkan meninggal

dunia aldbat komplikasi

dengue sho k syndrome

selepas dua hari

dimasukkan ke Unit

Rawatan Rapi.

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Sharp increase in dengue cases

MENACE: Pub lic

advi

sed to ta

ke

the

matter seriousl y

-

ILEEN NG

A

ND ALiF

Z

ULKEFLE

KU L LUMPUR

news@nst com my

T

HE number

of

dengue cases

has risen to an average of

4 a week since December

last year due to changes in the

weather.

This

is an

increase of 33 per cent

from its previous average

of300

to

350 cases a week.

In view of this, Health Minister

Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has ad

vised

the

pub

li

c to take

the

matter

se ri ollsly as

it

involves th

eir

health.

Dengue is dangerous. We have

to go all

out

with dengue erad

ication campaigns.

This

menace

has to be con

trolled

beca

use to

date, there

is

no

vaccine

for

dengue, he

said

after giv ing out RM3 17 million in

loa ns from the Cha ng

Mi

ng Thien

Fo

un

datio n

to

157

st

udents yes

terday

.

The foundation has given RM24

mi ll ion in loans

to

1,567 stude nts

since its in ception in 2004.

In a statement, Hea lth director

general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul

Rahman urged the public to get rid

of

Aedes breedinggrounds at their

homes, offices and inst itutions of

higher learning.

He said

the

ministry found that

through

out

last year. 90 per cent of

Aedes mosqu i

toes

breeding

grounds were within and around

residential premises as opposed to

2010, where 70 per cent

of

breeding

grounds were fo und around res

idential premises.

Th

e incr ea

se

of br e edi n g

grounds outside homes means

umpur

yesterday Pic

by Hasriyasyah Sabudin

society

needs

to be

more

active

and participate

in gotong-royong

activities to c lean u p t h ei r

pr

emises.

Flood-prone states are also ad

vised to conduct gotong-royong to

get rid

of

stagnant water.

Liow

said the dengue vacci ne

was

in

its second phase

of

clinical

trials invol

vi

ng 2,

000

humans

in

Putrajaya and Penang.

The third phase

of

the trials is

expected

co

be conducted by year's

end

and the vaccine

is

expected to

be used by

2015

On

the progress

of he

genetically

mod ified Aedes

mosquitoes

to

curb the spread of dengue,

Li

ow

said the ministry was keeping tabs

on its progress

We

have rele sed the

mosquitoes in non-populated ar

eas. Later, it will be released in

populated areas, he said adding

that

the ministry was also keeping

a close watch on countries with

similar research, like Brazi l

On another matter, Liow said no

HSNl avian influenza cases had

been reported in the country.

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Times

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l

h i,,

l

'oll, d' io ill

KlIa

/a

He said

the

government would

continue to monitor the situation

and carry

out

random checks on

livestock.

Livestock with bird

flu will

be

destroyed immediately, he said.

He said there was no mutation of

the H1Nl in uenza A virus and it

had now become a common sea

sonal flu.

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Doctor

died ofdengue, court told

POSTMORTEM

REPORT:

No

criminal elements

fo und in death of Dr Rajamalika says

cop

lTA

JONC;

SHAH

ALAM

ritajO@lnst.

com.my

O

PTHA

LM

OLOG IST Dr Ra -

jamalika Kandiah 's dea th 13

years ago was attributed to

dengue hae morrhagic

fev

er.

Investigati ng officer Ass istant

Sup erintendent Marina H

as

him

fro m Te ren

gga nu

poli

ce

h

ea

dqu ar

ters

told

th

e co

ron

er

s

co

urt

yester-

day

that t

hi

swas stated

in

the post-

mortem report.

Marina, who

to

ok over the invest

iga tion papers i n January

la

st

yea

r,

said she was only told

to

reco rd

stateme

nt

from a witness and

to

car

ry

out

for

ens

ic in

vestigalions on

Dr Rajamallka s house In Jalan USJ

2/5, Subang Jaya.

The investigati

on

in the

hous

e

wa

s

condu

c

ted

on

Jan

19,

last

year.

for

DNA .

We

se

ized two co mbs.

which w

ere

later sent to the Chem

istry Department, she said when

qu estioned by deputy public pro·

sec utor Noor Husnita Mohd Radzi,

who is ass isting in the inquest.

But it was very difficult to ge t

anything positive as the deceased

died

13

years ago.

Dr RajamaHka was married to

.Sivaraj Raja Ratnam, 8 , a former

fingerprint exa

min

er from fed eral

polic

e headq u

arters in

Bukit

Aman. Sivaraj

was

a divor

cee

when

his marri age with

Or

Rajamalika

was registered in April 1992.

Thi s was her second marriage ,

She has a SO D Or Bala Saravaoan

Bala Rajentheran, 27, a dentist t

Se layang Hospital, from her first

marriage ,

Dr

Rajamalika died on Aug

29,

1998, at the age of 44.

Her death was initially attributed

to dengue hae morrhagic fever, but

her brother, Mohanadas Kanaiah ,

subsequently lodged a po

li

ce r

e-

port llegi ng fo ul p l

y s

her

post-mortem revealed

the

pres

ence of arsenic and mercury in her

blood.

Poli ce r

eo

pened investiga tions

after the reports a

ll

eged that she

died

of

susp icious circumstan

ces.

Wh en qu estioned by counsel M.

M anoharan , who is representing

Sivara j,

Marina

said the forensics

and chemistry reports were negat-

. Ive

of

'any r

es

ults.

Manoharan

: you agree that

the doctorswho

r ~ t e d

Dr Rajama-

New

Straits Times 21

Januari

2 12

MIS 23

iika did not lodge any police report

of any sus picion or foul play?

Marina: Yes .

Manohara

n: Dr RajamaHka 's

son has previous

ly

alleged there

were c

rimina

l e

lem

ents

in

her

death. Did you see th

is

in your in

ves tigations?

Mari

na: No.

Coroner Norkamilah Aziz fix

ed

Feb 8 for submi

ss

ions,

The inquest is

co min

g to a cl

ose

after eight years of hearing.

t started in 2004 and saw more

than 20 postponements for various

reasons ,

with th r

ee

coroners

pr

es

iding over the

cas

e a

nd ni

ne

prosec uting officers and

deputy

pub.1i

c prosecutors.

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Ministry

steps

up

a n t i ~ q e n g u e

,

. '

meas,ores

PROACTIVE STEPS: More community based

programmes

to fight menace

CARISMA KAPOOR

KUALA

LUMPUR

r i s m a k a p o o r n s t

T

HE

Health Ministry wiU con

vene weekly dengue task

force meetings in all districts

to find ways to control the outbrea,k

of the disease. ;

Its disease control dire.ctor, Dr·:.

Chong Chee Kheong, 'said

the

meetings would strengthen the im

plementa t ion of

celerate their activities, especially

in the search and destroy oper

a t i 9 n ~ of'breeding places.

Dr,Chong said owners of premis

es found to be breeding aedes

mosquitoes would be issued max

imum fines.

He said

the

Health Ministry

would continue prograrnmes; such

as media campaigns and "Duta

Sihat lMalaysia" activities, includ

ing gotong-royong

talks and

Dengue Integrated i

Vector Management. "

house VIsits, to edu

cate families.

"Private companies

will also be assisted by

the ministry to initi

ate dengue preven

tion programmes held

by

the Rangers

Rid-

sect and Dengue Pa-

trol teams."

"Whenever there

is , 1 "Whenever there ::.

an outbreak, district is n

outbreak

~ ~ ~ ~ e ~ ~ ~ e ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

d i s t r i ~ officers

:1

prevent and curb

me s t ~ p up

to

d i ~ ~ : e : i n i s t r - y

said

con ene such I

Dr Chong, had taken

meetings to i

several proactive mea-

prevent and

curb 1:

'

sures to tackle the sit- ,

i the disease

.

uation, including issu-

l

ing district- and s t a t ~ - r

~ h e e

1

wide alerts

on

the ris- .

ealth i

ing number of dengue i inistry disease i

cases nationwide. ' i control director

He said district and 1 _ __ _ _. _

_._

_ _.i

state health depart-

. Through this pro

gramme

, Dr Chong

said students would

be plore aware about

dengue prevention

and share the .infor

mation with

'their

peers. Currently

,

there are more than

100 schools in the

ments would be increasing com

munity and individual participa

tion in dengue prevention and con

trol activities.

Klang Valley, Johor and Penang

involved in the programme.

A

Combi (Communication for

Behavioural

Impact

)

team

ap

proach will be emphasised to ac-

A total of 48

1

cases and two

deaths in the second week of this

year have been reported, compa

re

d

with 350 cases in the last week of

last year.

New Straits Times 25 Januari 2 12

MIS

4

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oktor perlu

lapor

k s

denggi

K

UALA

LUMPUR: Pengamal

perubatan

yang tidak mela

porkan kes denggi yang dirawat

di

premis kesihatan

masing

masing

akan

dikenakan tinda

kan mengikut Seksyen 10, Akta

Pengawalan dan Pencegahan

Penyakit Berjangkit 1988,

kata

Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri

Liow Tiong Lai. '

Beliau berkata, di bawah akta

itu, semua pengamal perubatan

bertanggungjawab melaporkan

kes demam denggi kepada Peja

bat

Kesihatan

yang terdekat

dalam tempoh 24 jam.

Kemel terian

Ke

sihatan

memandang serius perkara

ini

kerana kegagalan melaporkan

kes menyebabkan tindakan

kawa-

Ian tidak dilakukan 'seterusnya

menyumbang kepada penularan

jangkitan yang berterusan

,

kata

nya dalam satu kenyataan yang

dikeluarkan, di sini, semalam.

Tiong Lai berkata, pada tahun

lalu, enam pegawai perubatan

hospital swasta di Petaling aya

dikompaun

RM1 ,000

seorang

kerana gagal melaporkan kes

demam denggi m dirawat di

premis mereka. '

Kementerian Kesihatan men-

dapati 213 kes demam denggi dari

daerah Petaling yang dirawat di

hospital berkenaan pada 2011 dan

dar.ipada jumlah ,terbabit, enam

kes demam denggi tidak dilapor

kan di mana-mana pejabat

Kesi-

hatan, katanya.

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Cop in UN

team dies

of dengue

STATIONED IN Dill:

old wi

e

he

w

as fi ne

a

few hours earl ier

DESMOND

DAVIDSON

KUCHING

desmond @nstcom.my

aor

T'S a call wives of military or -

police personnel dread. And ear

lyon

Tuesday morning, Clare

Baar received that call .

The

news

was

too much to take. I

almost fainted. Only a few hours ear

lier,

I

was chatting with him on

Skype and he told me everything

was fine. Benet holding back tears as lil y look t Inspector en et Pawun s pictures. Pic by Ghazali Bujang

It

carne at lOam. The caller in

formed Clare that her husband,

In

spector Benet Pawun, 52. who was

serving with th United Nations po

lice

(UNPOL)

in Dili , Timor-Leste,

was found dead in

his quarters .

They told me he died

of

suspect

ed dengue; Clare, 51, said at her

home in Tama n Anggerek at Km64

of

Jalan Kuehing-Serian, here. yes

terday.

'Don'[ worry' were the last 'words

he said to me.

C

lare however

said she was wor-

ried as Benet had lso complained

that hewas having a

fever.

She became more concerned

when her husband told her he had to

go for a blood test.

' was fretting about his fever and

he kept saying 'don

t

worry' and 'ev

erything was fine '.

Benet, who left with the

Malay

s

ian

contingent on

Oct

13 last year for a

12-month

tour

ofduty. never saw the

result of he blood test.

He was supposed to have obtained

it

on

the day he died.

Officers went

to

his quarters

to

look for him after he failed to show

up

orwork

or respond to calls on his

handphone.

Benet was attached to the Crim

inal Investigation Departmentat the

sta te police headquarters, here .

His 26-year-old daughter, Le-

viana, said it was hard to accept that

her dad was dead.

When

my

mother informed m

e

1

kept asking her whether it was true.

' couldn't believe it. He was such

a healthy man.

Levian a; a staff nurse at

th

e Bin-

tulu Hospital, said there were no

indication that her

father

was sick

nor did he display any unusual be

haviour when he returned home

for

12

days last Christmas.

Benet has five other children -

Somers, 32 an assistant pharmacist,

eldest daughter, Connie,

3D

, a teach-

New Straits Times 9

Febuari

2 12

MIS: 7

er at SMK Taee in Serian Malcolm,

28, a police constable attached to the

Kul

al

Jays district police headquar

ters Cornelius.

19

, a student

at Kalej

Teknoloji Timur in Sepang,

and

Moses, a student at SMK Senan.

Malcolm, who had followed in his

father 's footsteps to join the police

force, sald his father 's body would

arrive in Kuching on Monday.

Benet is expected be buried in llis

home village of Mayang Kawan, near

Tebakang , on Wednesday.

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11 dengue de ths so far

Liow: Almost

half of

cases

reported this year were n S gor

GENllNG HIGHLANDS

Se an

gor recorded the

highest

number of dengue case

s,

with 1,271

cases reported from last month, Health

Minister Datuk

Seri Liow

Tiong Lai said.

This

figure was almo

st 50%

of

the

2,854

cases nationwide. Eleven deaths were reported

so

far,

he added.

He

urg

ed the

public

to

do their part in

eradicating the spread of the Aedes mosquito,

which also transmits the chikungunya virus.

The

numbers

compare

with

the

2,781

cases

and six deaths reported in the same period last

year.

Liow said

Kuala

Lumpur

had

313 cases

.

Such a big disparity between the

two

states

is extremely worrying, he said after attending

Resorts World Genting's annual

Chinese

New

Year

children 's party here yesterday.

Liow, who sounded the

"high

alert warning

for dengue on Saturday, urged doctors to

report dengue cases or hot spots

in

their areas

so the ministry

could zoom

in on them .

"We will send a team

to

fumi

gate and inves

tigate the hot

spots.

If they (doctors ) don't

in.form u

s,

we

will

have

difficulty

taking

action

,

he said, adding that the number of

de ngue cases had spiked-drastically

to

480

in

the

past week

alone.

He warned the

public

that the ' ministry

might

once again

increase the compound pen

alty for neglecting to ensure Aedes-free breed

ing grounds in their homes to

RM500.

Currently, it is

RM100

per compound fine,

but

we raised it

to RM500 when

dengue cases

The Star 13 Febuari 2012

MIS

19

were at a record high

in

2010,"

he

said, adding

that the ministry would continue

to fund

and

train more community-based anti-dengue

(

Combi)

teams nationwide.

He urged anyone

who had

dengue symp

toms including unabated high fever,

body

ache , nausea and lethargy

to

seek medical

treatment

before

it became

fatal.

Regarding the water-borne rotavirus out

break

in

Perak, Liow said the results of the

water

samples

would be ready by

today

.

On

another

issue, Liow said

a ministry team

would

investigate the death

of

a

six

-day-old

infant

girl at johor Baru's

Sultanah Aminah

Hospital on

Friday .

The parents had

alleged

that the girl's death

was due

to

negligence

.

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Idle land, abandoned buildings

breeding Aedes mosquitoes

MENACE:

Seremban Municipal Council i

ssued 8

notices

to

pro

pe

rty

ow

n

ers to

cl

e n up

their

premises nd 4 were tak

en

to court for f

il

ing to take heed of the notices last year

RAMESH PlUAI

SEREMBAN

[email protected]

k

LARGE number of Aedes

mosquitoes and larvae in the

eremban Municipal Council

MPS) area last year carne from plots

of idle land and abandoned houses.

CouncillorDatuk Jaafar Shahadan

said of the 332 dengue cases record

ed last

year.

there were 17 cases of

dl' 1gue hae morrhagic fever . Among

nit cases 34

were from tho

se living

_

e

r idle plots of land

nd

aban

,

'ooed houses.

He said the only way to curb this

menace was for everyone

to

keep

their homes and surroundings clean

and

free

of stagnant

water.

Though no deaths were

report

ed,

we c

nnot

view this problem lightly.

Go

ol

g- royong

activ

iti

es

are th

e

most effective way to curb the

spread of dengue he

s

id.

He

sa id thi

s

after chairing a

meet

ing ongorong royong activities at the

Taman Sri

awar

community hall in

Senawang near here,

recently.

Jaafar sa

id

a

g

OlOng

-

royong

would

be

held

in

Taman Sri Mawar

soo n

as there

were

six

cases

of

dengue

re-

ported at the housing

estate last year.

He said there were

m n

y plots ofidle land

and

abandoned hous

es as well as heaps of

rubbish nd clogged

drain

s,

making it ideal

for mosquitoes

to

bree

d.

Gotong-royong

acti

vit

ie

s

are

the

most effective

way to cu

rb

the

spread 'of

deng

ue

:

Datu

k J

aa/a

r

Sha

hada

n

S

c

Olmcillor

He said last

ye

ar the council also

issu

ed 582

notices

to prop

erty own

ers

to clean

up

their pre

mi

ses, es-

pecially those widl overgrown grass

and shrubs.

Twenty-four property owners

were

taken

to

court

after

they failed

to take heed of the notices.

The counc

il had

no choice but

to

New Starits Times 18 Febuari 2012

MIS

Datrl

kJaa/ar

S

I a ltadall

(second/rom

right i h MPS

officers a I

Taman ri

aw

ar

where six

dengue cases

were reported

last

year.

Pic by

Mohd

Amiin m

take

stern ac

ti

on

to

ensure

our area

is

free

of

th

e dengue menace, he

added.

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Cleaning-up

to

combat

dengue

RM250 OOO allocated for

1 areas n Kuala Lumpur

By CHOONG MEK ZHIN

[email protected]

Photo

by

CH

AN TAK KONG

EVEN areas in Kuala

Lumpur

have been allocated

RM2S0,O

OO

ea ch

to

organise clean-up

cam

paigns to

reduce

the threat posed

by

dengue.

The a

llocation

is timely as the

number of deaths due to dengue

had

a

lr

eady exceeded the total number

for

last year. --

Kua

la

Lumpur

City Hall

(DBK

L)

Health

and

EnvironmentDepartment

de

pu ty director

Dr

Norhayati

Abdullah s

aid

th ere hadalready been

three deaths

due

to

dengue

this

year.

We onl

y

had two

deaths last year

so we

are working toward

s

keeping

the statist

ic

s

down

, she

sai

d, a

dding

that preventing a de

ngu

e outbreak

required the cooperation of the pub

lic

in

keeping their

areas

free of

mo

squito -br

eedin

g grounds.

She

sa id thi

s at the

Taman

Cembira,

Se

puteh gotong-royong

that was organised by the Rotary

Club together

wi

th

the

Kuala Lumpu r

and

Putrajaya

H

ea

lth Department

recently .

Club

members cleared the area

of

unused containers that

may become

'

mo

squito-breeding

ground

s

and dis

tributed

Abate and

pamphlets to the

reside

nts.

Jalan Riang and Jalan

Selesa

in

Taman Cembera are former dengue

hotspots.

InJ

alan

Riang

13

people contract

ed

dengue

and two

in

Jalan

Se

lesa_

Rotary Club governor

Dr S.

Ravee

ndr

a Kumar said the gro up's

main objective was prov

idin

g

serv

ice to

the

comm unity.

We

cannot

kill all

the mosquitoes

there but

th

e best

way is to mak

e

s

ure

there

are no

breeding

gro

und

s,

he

sa id, adding th

at

everyo

ne should

keep

their

own home

s

clean.

DBK

f Seputeh area manager

Shaari Yusof

s,il

id one

of

th

e

mo

st

co

mmon places where mosquitoes

breed

were plas

tic

ba

gs

containing

drinks.

Some times we will find them

hangi

ng on tree

branches or fences,

he sa id,

adding that

these

were

often

the work of contractorworkers.

''Taki

ng

care

of your

ow

n

hom

e

is

not

enough.

Mosquitoe

s that

bites

you

could have

been from

a hou

se

a'

few doors

down from

your own, he

said .

We usua

lly

have

one

gotong-roy-

on

every

weekend except

during

the

celebration peri

od

s.

W

here pos

sibl

e.

we will organise a joint one

with the res idents association or

Rukun Tetangga,

he

sai

d, adding

that

each

event

cost abo

ut

RM3,OOO

to

organise

.

For our part,

we will bring in

the

contractor

workers from Alam

Flora,

provide

the

gar

bage lorry as we ll as

The Star

21

Febuari 2012

MIS 6

Spreading a

message

IMalaysia KKM

Health

Ambassador

Phoebe Yap

(second from

l

eft)

and Norhayati

(second

from

right)

handing out

information

pamphle

ts

and

Abate

packets to

Mak Sow

Yn ,

69,

a

resident

in

the

area durin

g

he

gotong-royong

programme

the canopies

and

PA system, he

said.

He sa

id they

also had

an addi

tionalRM400,OOO for soc ial develop

ment programmes

and RMSO

,OOO

for

emerge

ncy

sit

uatio

ns su

ch

as

clearing

fallen

trees during a

sto rm.

Previous l

y,

each area

on

ly had a

direct allocation of about

RMl

00,000:'

Shaari sai

d.

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t m n

b nter s

Aedes

300 penduduk gotong-royong

pastikan

kawasan bebas denggi

Komuniti

Oleh

Mohd

Ami"

Jail

bhnews

@bharlan com .m

Y

a

NAWANG: Kira-kira 300 pen

duduk membabitkan 11 taman

peru

mahan da'ti kawasan

Seremban Jaya Senawang di sini,

ber

gabung tenaga mel\iayakan program

gotong-royong

perdana

daJam usaba

membanteras pembiakan nyamuk

Aedes,

baru-baru ini.

Sebelas taman perumaban itu

mem

bab itkanTaman Seremban Jaya

Fasa

1

hingga 10dan Taman

Senangin

yang

terJetak berhampirannya.

Penyelaras program yang juga

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kawasan

Rukun Tetangga KRT) Taman Serem-

ban

Jaya Fasa

3,

Sabri

Leman

,

berl<ata

program itu bertujuan memastikan

kawasan berkenaan yang didiami

kira-kira 8,000

penduduk

bebas

dari

pada wabak demam denggi yang bo

l

eh

membawa mau .

Katanya, kawasan perumahan itu

pernah merekodkan beberapa kes

demam denggi sebelum ini, namun

rogram

itu

bertujuan

memastikan

kawasan berkenaan

yang

didiami

kira

kira

8 000

pendudukbebas daripada wabak

demam denggiyang boleh

membawa m ut

Sabri Le

n

Penyeloros program

MOHO NAJEEB dua dart kanan) menyampaikan hadlah kepada dua remaj yang memenangi pertandingan mengumpul

Jentik jentlk

pad.

program

gotong r

o

yong

perdana di Taman

SerembanJaya.

sehinggakini tiada

kes demam

d

enggi

berdarah yang menyebabkan

kema

tian.

Tindakan

awaJ

mengadakan

gotong-royong

membersihkan

kawa

san penting untuk memastikan tiada

penduduk yang menjadi mangsa

penyakit

itu.

Kita berharap aktiviti

n

dapat

memastikan seluruh kawasan n

bebas daripada demam

denggi.

Kita

juga tidak mahu taman

ini

mel\iadi

lokasi penyakit berkenaan berleluasa

yang akhirnya akan memberi kesan

kepada kesejahteraan penduduk ,"

katanya.

Program berkenaan dirasmikan

Ahli

Dewan

Negara, Senator Datuk

Mohd Najeeb

Abdullah. Hadir sarna

Pegawai

Kesibatan Daerah Seremban,

Dr

Mohd

Faid uso[

Beliau

turut

menyampaIkan

hadiah

pertandingan mengumpul jentik-en

tik membabitkan relllllia dan kanak

kanak

kawasan terbabit

Terdahulu,

Mohd

Najeeb menya

rankan supaya program gotong

royong itu diadakan lebib kerap

dengan penyertaan pihak

swasta.

Beliau berkata, swasta harus

memainkan peranan penting datam

aktiviti seperti itu sebagai satu dari-

pada

tanggungjawab

sosial mereka

Sa

ya yakin jika program seperti

ini mendapat pembabitan swasta,

ia

memberi kesan

lebib

baik

bukan saja

datam memastikan tabap kebersihan

taman, maIah mampu mewujudkan

satujaringan hubungan untukkepen

tingan bersama terutama dari segi

pendidikan kesibatan.

Saya juga yakin pibak swasta

akan

memberikan komitm

en

mereka terhadap usaha ini kerana

mereka juga menyedari tanggungj a

wab mewujudkan

persekitaran

sibat dan se

jahtera

adaJah tugas

bersama, katanya.

Berita Harian 29 Febuari 2012

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Coroner octor

died

o

dengue

CLOSURE nquest

rules out foul play

in ophthalmologist s

death

RITA JONG

SHAH

ALAM

ritajo@nst com my

A

N

inquest which had

stretched for seven years

concluded yesterday with

the coroner finding no foill play in

the death of ophthalmologist Dr

Rajamalika Kandiah.

My

wife's soul can finally rest in

peace," was

the immediate

re-

sponse from Dr Rajamalika's hus-

band, Sivaraj Raja Ratnam,' who

broke down in tears, after the coro-

ner's court found

that

his wife had

died

of dengue haemorrhagic

shock".

Dr Rajamalika died on Aug

29,

1998, at the age of 44.

Her death was initially attributed

to dengue haemorrhagic fever, but

her brother, Mohanadas Kandiah,

lodged a police report alleging foul

play as her autopsy revealed the

presence of arsenic

and

mercury in

her blood.

The police then reopened inves-

tigations after the report had al-

leged that she died of suspicious

circumstances.

The inquest to determine the

cause of her death ·then began in

Aug 2004.

Yesterday, coroner Norkamilah

AZiz

sald her duty was to conduct

the inquest to find out how, when

and

where Dr Rajamalika died and

if there was any person who

had

caused her death.

The coroner said that based

01;1

the testimonies of eight witnesses,

Dr Rajamalika fell ll on Aug 11,

1998 and was admitted to Selangor

Medical Centre (now known asKPJ

New Straits Times 1 Mac 2 12

MIS 7

Medical Centre) two days later. She

underwent an operation two days

later on

Aug 14,

for breathing prob-

lems.

"Between Aug 13 and 16 at the

medical centre, she was treated for

dengue fever," said Norkamilah.

"On Aug 17, she was then trans-

ferred to University Hospital (now

known as University Malaya Med-

ical Centre) when her condition

worsened. She died on Aug29.

Norkarnilah said witnesses also

did not know how arsenic was

found

in

the deceased's blood.

"Since

there

were allegations

that

the deceased was poisoned,

the

P91ice

forensics had carried

out

further investigations at her house

on Jan 19,

last year, but failed to

find any new evidence.

"This was because the forensics

investigation was carried out 13

years later and evidence

ould

pos-

sibly have been lost. Throughout

her

17

days at the medical centres,

she was treated for de lgue."

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I<ematian aldbat denggi membimbangl<an

KUALA LUMPUR

3 Mac - Kemen

terian Kesihatan meminta semua

doktor kJinik memaklumkan jika

menerima

pesakit dengan simptom

dema

rn

denggi berikutan

15

kerna

tian akibat wabak itu dicatatkan ha

nya dalam tempoh

an

tara Jaouari

hingga I

Mac

lalu.

Ketua Pengarahnya, Datuk Seri

Dr

. Hasan Abdul Rahman (gambar)

berkata. angka kematian itu amat

serius kerana ia meningkat dua kali

ganda atau sebanyak 88 peratus

berbanding lapan kes bagi tempoh

sa

rna

tahun lalu .

Beliau turut menasihatkan dok

tor-doktor di semua kJinik supaya

leb

ih

sensitif dan tidak mengambil

rnudah aduan pesakit te

rutama yang mempu·

nyai tanda-tanda de

rnam denggi.

ituasi denggi dan

angka kematian dalam

ternpoh yang singkat ini

antara

yang

terburuk da

lam negara. Oleh itu,

orang

Tarnai digesa

supa

-

ya lebih kerap member

sihkan kawasan kedia

man

ma

sing

masing.

Kita boleh capai kes denggi sifar

sekiranya kadar demam denggi da

pat diturunkan antara 6 dan

8

peratus dan salah satu kaedahnya

adalah mene

ru

si kempen member -

sih kawasan selama

10

minit setiap minggu se

kali . katanya .

Be

liau berkata

demiki

an selepas majlis penu

buhan pasukan Skuad

Denggi Penyelamat Nya

wa di Sekolah Menengah

Teknik Kajang dekat sini

h

an

ini.

Hasa

n b

erkata

sela

in

peningkatan kes kemati

an, jwnlah kes demam denggi turut

meningkat sebanyak 14 peratus iaitu

daripada 4,453 kes berbanding 3,915

kes ba

gi

tempoh sama tahun lalu.

Berdasarkan analisis, katanya,

sebanyak 21 peratus daripada ke

seluruhan kes awa l tahun ini

me-

Iibalkan golongan pel ajar kerana da

ripada 15 membabitkan kematian,

tiga kes terdiri daripada dua pelajar

sekolah rendah dan seorang pelajar

institusi pengajian tinggi (lPT).

Bagi

mengatasi masalah

itu

, kata

beliau, kementerian mengambil ini

siatif menubuhkan sk

uad

basmi

denggi di peringkat sekolah me

nengah dan rendah melibatkan se

banyak 103 sekolah setakat ini.

Ki

ta juga menggalakkan set iap

komuniti

di negara ini

supaya

ter

Iibat secara langsung dengan prog

ram

Komunikasi

Untuk

Perubahan

Tingkahlaku (Combi) bagi mence

gah

denggi, katanya.

Utusan Malaysia 4 Mac 2012

MIS

Menurut

beliau, kementerian

menerusi penguat kuasa pemantau

tidak teragak-agak

untuk

menge

nakan kompaun kepada pihak yang

membiarkan kawasan mereka men

jadi tempat pembiakan nyamuk ae

des.

Sepanjang tahun lalu kata beliau,

pihaknya telah mengumpul seju

mlah

RM6

juta hasil daripada tin

dakan kompaun tersebut.

Jelasnya , kementerian juga te

lah

mengenalpasti tiga kawasan panas

wabak denggi di sekita r Kuala Lum

pur iaitu di Flat Desa Tunku Ma-

riam , Setiawangsaj

Taman Sri Ram-

pai, Setapak

dan

Taman Bukit Ang-

gerik.

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Rise

in dengue

cases

in

P

Klang

Problem

due to poor garbage collection

T

HE

sudden

rise

in dengue

_

cases

in Klang

especially at

Port

Klang

town

has got

resi-

dents here worried and they want

the authorities to act swiftly to

deal w i ~

the

problem.

M. Vadivu from jalan

Derun

,

Port

Klang sa

id apart from

hi

s

mother, two of

hi

s neighbours

had

sought treatment for

dengu

e

fever

last week.

Another resident

jackson

Tan

said

a couple of other residents

who

live in Leboh Berangan,

jal

an

Seroja

and

Lint

a

ng Derun

were

also

seeking treatment

for

den

gue-related symptoms the past

few weeks.

We are worried because apart

from

the

late collection of gar-

bage, the

drains in this area have

not

been cleaned

for

months. The

council

and

health department

should also

in

spect nearby

con-

struction sites and households

doing

renov tions s r inw ter

easily gets trapped

in

these areas

thus making them good breeding

ground for the aedes mosquitoes,

said

Tan.

Vadivu

sa id the situation

was

worrying as residents were

afraid

of going outdoors the past few

days.

1

do

not

allow

my children to

play outside after what happened

to my mother. The authorities

have been fogging the place the

past few weeks but I think they

need to

do

more to improve the

cleanliness

and hygien

e

in this

res idential

area, he

addded.

Klang

MCA

Youth chiefDr

Ching

Eu Boon described the

rise

in den

gue

cases

in the district as wo

rry

ing

.

He said there had been more

than 70 dengue cases recorded at

the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah

Hospital last month , adding that

this was due to

the

local council

not doing

a good job in

collecting

ga

rba

ge

regularly.

MPK (K

lang Municipal Council

)

had

not

been collecting rubbish at

certain areas in Port Klang.

Panda

maran, Taman

Bayu Perdana

and

Taman

Chi

Liun

g regularly.

. When garbage is left to

pile

, it

becomes an easy breedingground

for

Aedes mosquitoes.

Dr

Ching said

the situation

was

so bad in certain areas

in

Klang that

Barisan Nasional leaders had to fork

out their own money to

clean

up the

places.

But there

is

only so

much

we can

do. The state government has a

bi

g

budget to ensure cleaning work is

implem ented.

If

they cannot spe

nd

a

little

for

the people, I wonder what

th

ey a

re doing

with the

money,

Dr

Ching added.

Selangor executi

ve councillor,

in

charge

of health, Dr

Xavier

jayakumar

said authorities had identified several

hotspots

in

th

e state

as

potential area

Aedes breeding ground s.

''These areas are usually abandoned

projects and construction sites, he

said, adding that there were more

than 140 abandoned projects in

Selangor.

Dr Xavier said authorities were con-

stantly conducting fogging and other

cleaning works

in

housing areas to

eradicate the

Aedes mo

squito.

The Star Mac 2 12

MIS

Breeding

gr

o

und:

Residents feel

that unco

lle

cted

rubbish such as

th

is

illegal

dumpsite

adjacentto a

construction ste

in Jalan

Rasau,

P

ort Klang

and

clogged drains

are contributing

factors to the

rise

n dengue cases

Ca

lling

the

rise

in dengue

cases

in

the sta te as common , he sa

id:

It is a

cyclic rise. Last

year,

during this peri

od, the state recorded a

very

little

amount of dengue ca

ses

compared to

-the same

period thi

s year.

Dengue

cases

are soaring during

thi

s time of the year because' of the

heavy

rain. We

have

taken mea sures

to

curb this problem

,

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More dengue campaigns in

schools and residential areas

ERI

KEMBANGAN:

The

Health

Ministry

wi ll

intensify awareness campaigns at residential

areas and

schools

to curb the increase in den

gue

fever

this

year.

Minister Datuk Seri [jow Tiong

Lai

said den

gue cases had risen sharply this year, 'espe-

ciany in

Selangor.

As

of

Friday,

there were a total of 4,533

cases recorded.

This

is

a 14 increase

compared to

the

same period

last

year,

he

told journalists after

launching a health

check

.project

and blood

donation camp

aign

here yesterday.

Liow added that the death to

ll

had sp ik

ed

by

about 50 with 15 deaths th is year compared

to

eight last

year.

He said the ministry wou ld combat the rise

in dengue fever by promoting preventive

measures, which

include

cleaning up the

breeding areas of

Aedes

mosquitoes.

On Saturday, Hea lth director-general

Datuk

Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said three of the

deaths caused by dengue fever recorded this

year involved children.

On the hand , foot and mouth disease in

Sarawak, l ow said the situation was under

control as the number of cases had decreased

from

93

on

Saturday to

58 yesterday.

So far, there

have been 1.922

cases

in

Sarawak this year, he said, adding that

seven

children were warded for the disease yes ter-

day.

On another matter,

Liow

said the prevalence

of diabetes , hypertension, high cholesteroland

obesity

had

increased

from

2006

to 2011

.

The number of high cholesterol cases

increased from

20.7%

of the total population in

2006

to 35

.1 ast year, he said.

The

Star Mac 2 12

MIS 9

Noble deed:

liow

checking

on a blood donor

at a health check

project

and

blood

donation

campaign

at

Taman Seri Timah,

Seri Kembangan

yesterday

. Looking

on

is Serdang

parliamentary

constituency

coordinator

Datuk

Yap Pian on (in

light

blue).

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Anti dengue

banners with

bad translation to

be removed

KUANTAN:

The Pahang

Government

has asked.

the health authorities

to

take down several

anti-dengue banners

with

incorrect

Mandarin

translation.

The

banner

s,

which

also

carry the

Bahasa

Melayu

text, were

found

around

Taman

Bukit

Setongkol

here.

They

were meant to warn residents that

their neighbourhood was dengue-prone and

that immediate action had to be taken to wipe

out breeding

grounds

for the Aedes mosquito

that causes the disease.

Households found

to

harbour the

mosquito

larva

e can

face

a RM500 compound .

The Bahasa

Melayu word den

ggi

appeared to

hav

e been phonetically translated into

Mandarin, rendering it meaningless. The trans

lation for k mp un was also incorrec

t.

The

rest of

the Mandarin te

xt -

while

reaso n

ably understood - was.

not

well-translated.

State

Local

Government, Health and

Environment Committee chairman

Datuk

Hoh

Khai

Mun said he had directed the health

office to replace the banners. .

Apologising on behalf of the district health

office, he said there was no ill-intention.

There may have been some

mistakes

dur

ing the translation. We

will

rectify it immedi

ately, he said.

Hoh s

aid Pahang

had

894 dengue cases

last

year,

a

47

rop over 201 O He said

60

f the

cases we

re reported in

Kuantan.

The

Star Mac

2 12

MIS: 5

Lost in

tr nsl t o

n

One of

the

many wrongly

translated

banners n

Taman Bukit

Setongko

l

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5 4 l<es demam

denggi minggu lalu

KUALA LUMPUR

15

Mac - Sebanyak

504 kes dernarn denggi diJaporkan

pada minggu ke-IO tabun ini, dart

ternpoh 4 hingga

10

Mac IaJu dengan

tiada kernatian akibat kes itu di

catatkan.

Ketua Pengarab Kesibatan, Datuk

Sert

Dr.

Hasan Abdul Rahman gam-

ba r

)

berkata,

ia

rnenunjukkan pe

nurunan berbanding minggu sebe

Iumnya yang rnelibatkan sebanyak

567 kes dengan dua kernalian.

Katanya, beberapa negert bagal- .

manapun terus mencatatkan pe·

oingkatan kes berbanding minggu

£,;;.Jurnlah kernatian turut

W

rnen

ingkat sebanyak 6

kes

berbanding

lapan kes

bagi

ternpoh

yang sarna

DR

. H

ASAN

A

BD

UL

RAHMAN

Ketua Pengarah

Kesihatan

IaJu iaitu Pulau Pinang s e b ~ y k

12

kes, Perlis dan Sabab (liga kes), Pe

rak (sernbilan kes), Wilayab Perse

kutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Putrajaya

Gapan kes) dan Sarawak (empat

kes).

Bermula dari Januari sehingga

1 Mac tahun ini

kes

demam

denggi

meoingkat kepada 5,184 kes ber

banding 4,445 kes sepanjang tern

poh sarna tabun IaJu .

Jumlab kemalian

turut

meoing

kat sebanyak 16 kes berbanding Ia

pan kes bagi tempoh yang sarna,

katanya dalarn satu kenyataan di

sini

hari ini.

Menurut Hasan, sejumlab 115 10-

kalili wabak denggi di 2 daerah

telab dikenaJ pasti dengan lima da

ripadanya

di

kawasan panas di

Kua-

la Lumpur dan Putrajaya, Hulu

La-

ngat dan daerab Petaling Jaya.

Katanya, dua

d r i p

lima 10

Utusan Malaysia 16 Mac 2 12

MIS

25

kalili itu turut dicatatkan mempu

nyal kadar pembiakan nyarnuk Ae

des rnelebihi paras babaya.

Jelasnya, kebanyakan tempat

pembiakan nyarnuk Aedes itu di

temui

di

kawasan luar

rumah iaitu

eli kawasan-kawasan yang rnudab

elitakungi air.

Penularan wabak denggi beleh

diatasi sekiranya masyarakat

sen-

tiasa peka dengan kebersihan

eli

persekitaran mereka apatab Iagi

pada musim hujan ketika ini yang

memudahkan air bertakung

u

ujar

-

nya.

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rojects

take

the

sting

out of mosquitoes

THE Health Ministry's effort in bring

ing down dengue

cas

es· through

Communication

for

Behavioural

Impact Combi) projects had seen an

impressive 78% drop in dengue

related deaths

from

January to

November 2011 , as compared

to

the

same period in

2010.

A total of 17,450 cases were

reported, compared

to

42,914 cases

the previous

year,

marking a 59%

decline. '

There was also an 81

%

drop in the

number of dengue hotspots declared

in 2011 in comparison with the 572

in

2010.

Pr

ior to the implementation of the

Ministerial Key Result Areas (MKRA)

the number of dengue cases in the

country was

on

a rise.

There

was

a 11% ump

in

dengue

cases

iii

2010

as

compared to 2009

while reported dengue-related

deaths

rose

by 52 ,from 88 deaths

in

2009

to

134

deaths in

2010.

Apart from that, one of the big

gest complaints from hospital

patients was that it took a long

waiting time just to get prescribed

medication.

n addressing this, the ministry

embarked on several initiatives

including the implementation of the

Appointment System and a Drive- '

Thru

Pharmacy.

As

of October last year, all govem

ment hospitals and 357 clinics offer

at least one of the services under the

Appointment System, including tel

ephone and SMS pick-up service

while 11 hospitals now have

Drive

Thru

Pharmacies.

Meanwhile, the

Works

Ministry

has

come out as one of the top per

formin g ministries in the

MKRA.

Their rehabilitative works on

some of the country's most danger-

0us

roads bore results of

up to

100%

on some stretches .

For their MKRA, the ministry

undertook the responsibility of fix

ing blackspots - locations where

accidents have occurred repeatedly

due to engineering factors - with

the goal of .reducing ,road acci

dents.

he

number of dengue

cases

and

•

Dengue

cases _

Dengue

re

lat

ed

deaths

Sourc

e: GTP 2 11

nnual

Repo

t

The

Star

April 2 12

MIS

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J

sr a fortnight after the

World

Health

Or

gani sation (

WHO

)

chief warned about.the po

ss

ible

e

nd

of modern medicine because of

th e resistance of disease-caus

in

g

micro-organisms to drugs, there

was alanning news last

week

of the

rapid s

pread

of a strain of malari a in

Asia that is resistant to the most

effe

ctive

drugs.

A

new

study found resistance

growing

in a ma

laria

strain in th e

Thai-Myanrnar border: It had earlier

been found in western Cambodi

a.

The study 's authors warn that the

de

adly form of malaria could s

pread

through

Myanmar

to other co

un

tries unles s swift action is taken.

Malaria

is caused

by

·parasites

carried

by

mosquitoe

s.

and

kill

ed

655.000 people worldwid e

in

2010

. .

It had earlier b

ee

n treated with

quinine, then chloroquine.

When mala

ria

develop ed resist

a.nce to chloroquine it was no long

er effe

cti

ve and the new e

ffec ti

ve

drug

in

gredient wa s artemisinin

(derived from the sweet wo

rm

wood shrub), which is now Olainly

used

in

combination with other

ingredients.

Re

si

stance to artemisinin -based

dru

gs

is now caus

in

g alarm be

ll

s to

ring, because there are no ' other

effective

dru

gs

,

and

no n

ew

anti

malaria dru g is exp

ec

ted

to be in the

market in the nex t several yea rs.

Malaria that is res istant to artem

isinin wa s first found in 2006 in

Cambodia. In western Ca

mbodia

,

42

of

malaria

ca

ses were found to

be resistant in 200 7-2010. That's a

shockingly high percentage.

and

if

thi s kind of

pr

evalent res istance

spre

ad

s to other region s. there will

be

a malaria emerg

en

cy.

A team

of

Briti

sh and

Thai sc ien-

Super

malaria

strain 'on the rise

The danger of drug

resistance is

coming uncomfortably close to home

.as

scientists

report

the rapid spread o

a

super

malaria

strain

resistant

to

the

best drugs and warn

of

the

need

to

contain

this

~ e s i s t a n c e

ti

sts studied 3.202 patients along

Thailand 's north-western border

with Myanm ar from 20Q1 and 2010

and meas ured the

ti

me it t

oo

kthem

to clear m

ala ri

a infections

fr

om

their

bloo

d afte r tr

ea

tm ent.

An article in The ncet reported

that the numbe r of slow -clea

rin

g

infec

ti

ons rose from 0.6%of cases

treated

in

2001 to 20% in 2010 ,

indicating a ra pid rise in drug

r

esis

t n

ce

In

th

at

period , the ave rage

tim

e

ta ken to reduce the numb er of par

as

ites in the blood by half rose from

2.6 hours to 3

.7

hours. The

pr

opor

tionofslow-clearing

infecti

ons rose

from six to 200 out of every 1,000

cases,

indi

cating res istance has

rea

ched 20%of cases.

A

cco

rd ing to a

re

port by ky

'Alarming : Anopheles

ga

m

biae

mosqu i

toe

S. a

vecto

r for

the

malaria parasite,

hanging

on

a net ina research facility inNairobi, Kenya

Accord

in to media

r

epo

rt

s r

ecenti'

,

evide

n

ce

has emerged

that

resistant

strains

of

malaria

have

been

.

fo

und on he border between M

anma

r

and

Th

ailand.

- EPA

ews

lead researcher Prof F

ran

co is

Nos ten, director of the Shokl o

Malaria R

ese arch

Unit in Thailand ,

w

arn

ed of a

ra

ce ag

ain

st t

ime

to

ha

lt

the res istance trend.

If the situation continues to dete

riorate then it could

mean

that the

newest dru

gs

that we' have ·to treat

malaria now which are the deriva

tives of artemis

inin,

will be progr

es

sively ineffec

ti

ve."

Nosten sa

id

the consequences, as

seen in the p

ast,

wo uld be an

increa

sing

numb

er

of

ca

ses

of

ma

lar

-

The

Star

9

April 2 12

MIS

7

ia and more deaths.

He

said the reason why the

malar

i strain

ha

s

evolved

resistance to

the new treatments is probably

because

they have been used a

lot

over

the last 20

years,

as

they

were

the only

effective

treatments.

"We can still treat the patient

with these

dru

gs and they

get

better

and they

get

cured,

it

just

takes

longer

for them to clear the

disease,

he

said.

We

have now seen the emer

gence of

a

malaria

strain resistant to

our best drug

s,

and these resistant

parasites are not confined to west

ern

Cambodia. This

is

very

worrying

indeed and suggests that we are

in

a

race against

time to

control malaria

in

these regions before drug resist

ance worsens and develops and

spreads further. The effect of that

happening could be devastating.

Malaria

already kills hundreds of

thousand s of people a year - if our

drugs become ineffective, this

figure

will rise dramatically."

Another researcher, Prof Nicholas

White at the Faculty of Tropical

Medicine

in

Mahidol Univerity

in

Bangkok, urged that supportbe given

to Myanmar to fight the spread of

drug-resistant

mal

aria there.

Support is also needed to contain

the

resistance in this region, other

wise

it

is

goin

g to

spread

to India and

Africa, sa

id

White.

The spread of resistant malaria is

but one more examp le of a critical

situation , one in which WHO

direc

tor-general Margaret Chan

warned

of

an emerging era of

the

end of modem

med icine.

There should be a worldwide

cam

paign

to identify

the

sources of this

problem and to contain drug

resist

ance, including t hrough

the

proper

pr

escrip tion and use

of drug

s.

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Homes

checl<ed

to

curb

dengue

PROACTIVE: Health Department

st ff

and vo lunteers

destroy breeding ground

of

edes mosquitoes

HAMESH PILLAI

SEREMBAN

[email protected]

P

ERSONNEL

from the Negri Sembilan

Health Department recently broke in-

to and

in

spected 100 un

occ

upied

homes in Taman Desa Rhu in Sikamat near

h

ere

du ring agotong royong to curb the

spre d

ofdengue.

About 2 personnel from the department

and SO volunteers joined hands to make the

programme which was carried out in ei

ght

hou si ng estates a success.

The

gotong royol

g was organised

by

res-

idents of Taman Desa Rhu with the eo op-

eration

of

the Health Department following

seve

ral

reports of dengue cases in the area .

Abi

bah

Hussin, who organised the pro-

gramme, said the department was worried

about the increasing number of dengue cases

in the area and decided to do something about

it

We

got toge

ther

and cleaned several areas

in

the hou sing estate and also conducted

checks, while children aged between 7 and

16

y e r s ~ o l d were asked to look

for

pote

nt

ia l

mosquito breeding grounds.

Though no compo

und

s were issued during

the event, h

e

lth officers will be coming

around regularly

to

con

du

ct surprise checks

and issue compounds to those who do not

maintain the cleanliness of their respective

premises, she said.

The volunteers also collected about 400kg

of

containers, cups, pots and other items

co

n-

s

id

ered potential breeding ground for larvae.

T

he programme was a success and we hope

atuk Moharnad Razi Kail

volullteer t the ·f con. -f·ov,mf ·

to organise more eve nts and campaigns to

increase public awareness

of

the importance

to maintain cleanliness, she said.

Meanwhil e ,

state

executi ve co

uncillor

,

Datuk Mohamad Razi Kail, who is also the

S

ik

amat assemblyman, said the people should

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organise s imilar activities to prevent

the

spread

of

dengue.

There is only so much the author

iti

es can

do. To eradicate this menace. we must all work

together and share the r

espons

ibilit

y,

he

added.

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Mosquitoes

n

Klang hospital s

dengue

ward

I

WAS

admitted

in

a critical condition to the

Emergency Ward of the Hospital Tengku

Ampuan Rahimah

Klang

for dengue haemor-

rhagic

fever

. Later, my condition improved

and I was wheeled to the Dengue

Ward

for

further treatment and observation.

The

Dengue

Ward

was very

clean, thanks

to

a very efficient maintenance crew.

However, the one menace they couldn t get

rid

of

was

qlosquitoes.

It

was

during

my second

day at the ward

that I saw mosquitoes flying about. One

even

landed on

my

arm.

I was

shocked

as this wa s, after all, the

Dengue Ward

. What

i

I

was

bitten

again by an

aed es mosquito?

I was alarmed because Iwas to ld that if you

f . victim to dengue fever the seco nd

time,

your condition

will

be

far

more serious than

the first. I quickly told one of the nurses of the

presence of mosquitoes but,

shockingly,

she

said the1e was

nothing they

could

do about

it.

Since

it was then already pm (and most

shops were closed ), I asked if they had any sort

of repellent that I

could use

. Again, the answer

was no .

On a positive note , most of the doctors and

nurses there were dedicated

and efficient.

I

recovered

and was

discharKed after two

day .

But what about the others

still

in the ward?

They were also there to seek treatment

for

dengue fever

and

, like me, they haefto contend

with mosquitoes.

I HATE MOSQUITOES,

Klang.

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Ministry sets up

anti deng

u team

TH

Health Ministry has set up a

dengue management team to tackle

the drastic increase in the number of

dengue cases this year and to stop

i t

from worsening.

Its deputy minister, Datuk Rosnah

Abdul Rashid Shirlin, said

ther

e

were more than 8,000 cases this year

with 18 deaths, much higher than

the

almost

6,600 ases

with

12

deaths recorded

in

the same period

last year.

She said 4 per cent of cases were

from

Sel

an or, followed by Kuala

Lumpur and Putrajaya.

There are more

than

3,000 dengue

cases in Selangor with nine deaths

and 800 cases in Kuala

Li Lmpur

and

Putrajaya,'with three deaths.

She said this when answering Sen

ator Muhamad Yusof Husin, who

asked for the statistics on dengue

cases and steps taken by the gov

ernment to deal with the problem.

Roslin said the ministry acknowl

edged the urgent need to combat the

threat of dengue cases in the coun

try.

The ministry has set up a special

task force, the 'Dengue Management

Team', made up of highly-trained

officials.

Through trus,

we

have set up a

speciali ed ward and cubicles for

dengue cases and a 'High Depen

dency Ward in all government hos

pitals to give immediate attention to

dengue patients.

She added that a thorough screen

ing of patients would be done using

a m ticulous 'Dengue Care Chart

and 'Clerking Sheet for Suspected

Dengue Cases.

Rosnah said the ministry had ap

pointed nior medical consultants

called 'Champions' t6 serve

in

every

state and they would act as a source

of reference

for

medical personnel

in the treatment and management

of dengue cases.

She said the ministry regularly

carried out dengue mortality review

meetings to discuss and ensure stan

dard operating p(Qcedures were

fol

lowed in hospitals, guidelines were

adhered to and all circulars and in

structions from the Health Depart

ment director-general on dengue

were followed.

These meetings are made up of

expert advisers on infectious dis

eases experts on public and family

medicine, entomologists and health

education officials.

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ducating

students

ab·out

·

dengue

.

SHAH

ALAM

Rentokil Initial will col

laborate with a number of schools in

its corporate spcial responsibility

programme to raise awareness on

dengue and personal hygiene

among children.

'Its managing director, Carol Lam,

said ~ n t o k i l

nitial branches

through ut the country

will

be or

ganisingJhe

CSR

programme.

The programines include .talks

on dengue awareness and preven

tion measuies anet op personal hy

giene to educate the students good

washroom ha its and hand-washing

steps.

The school canteen operators

were also educated

on

hygiene, pest

infestation and prevention mea

sures, followed by a general pest

control treatment

in

the canteen

area, said Lam during a visit to one

of the selected schools, SK Seksyen

Enam PI Shah Alam y Masriwanie

Muhamading

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