Mizoram takes preventive measures to combat JE

Mizoram government today designated the Civil Hospital in Aizawl as the Sentinel Site Hospital for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) where diagnostic equipment and medical experts with supporting staff were in place, an official statement today said.
The preventive arrangements were made after reports of outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Manipur surfaced last week, the statement said.
State health department officials said that while no JE case had so far been detected in the state, precautionary measures were made to meet any eventuality.
The Aizawl district administration had already issued prohibitory order banning import of pig, cattle, buffalo and chicken from Manipur as domestic animals could be carrier of the disease.

Experts would soon be sent to the Mizoram-Manipur border areas to train the medical officials in the rural hospitals and health centres and also to create mass awareness among the local populace about the JE, the statement added.