{"id":7051,"date":"2024-08-13T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2024-08-13T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:33:08","slug":"health-ministry-steps-up-to-control-cholera-dengue-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/health-ministry-steps-up-to-control-cholera-dengue-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry steps up to control cholera, dengue infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 13: The Health and Population Ministry has started activities to prevent and control cholera and dengue after the infections started spreading at different parts of the country.<br \/>\nWith the increasing number of dengue and cholera patients, Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, instructed the bodies concerned to launch effective steps immediately. Soon after Minister Paudel\u2019s instruction, the Ministry forwarded short-term and long-term steps to that end.<br \/>\nAccording to the Ministry, Rapid Response Teams have been carrying out activities at dengue and cholera hit areas collaborating with province and local levels under leadership of Epidemiology and Disease Control Division to bring cholera under control.<\/p>\n<p>The teams have been searching for the people who were in direct contact with patients and observing the symptoms. It would help to bring cholera under control, added the Ministry.<br \/>\nAccording to Minister Paudel\u2019s Secretariat, activities were initiated immediately by holding discussion with bodies concerned of respective places to improve quality of drinking water to bring water-borne diseases under control.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has made a plan of making food quality monitoring task effective at the centre, provinces and local levels to prevent further problems in coming days. It has also been making preparation of carrying out necessary activities, formulating the National Cholera Control\/Prevention Plan 2024-2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 13: The Health and Population Ministry has started activities to prevent and control cholera and dengue after the infections started spreading at different parts of the country. With the increasing number of dengue and cholera patients, Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, instructed the bodies concerned to launch effective steps immediately. Soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}