BHADRAK: Panic gripped at least eight villages under Basudevpur block in the district after 30 labourers, working in the industrial belts of dengue-hit Angul district, reached home on Tuesday. Sources said the labourers from Kamargaon, Mirzapur, Kiapada, Narendrapur, Brahmangaon, Alabaga, Guagadia and Gobindapur villages were taken to Angul to work in a private steel plant by one Ranjan Nayak. They, however, left the site after Ranjan suffered from prolonged illness. While his blood sample has been sent to Cuttack for test, locals are demanding tests for others who accompanied him. According to villagers, Prashanta Das of Guagadia panchayat recuperated from fever following treatment and a few others of the same panchayat too are suffering from fever. However, their blood samples are yet to be tested, villagers added. According to reports, altogether six persons from Tihidi and Basudevpur blocks of the district have been diagnosed with dengue, but there has been no casualty. All six are cured now. An MBA student from Kalidaspur village here tested positive for dengue. He is studying in a college in Bhubaneswar and undergoing treatment in a private hospital there. His family said he had recovered. Similarly, a Plus Two Arts student, who was initially admitted to district headquarters hospital, too tested positive for dengue. She is now undergoing treatment at SCB Medical in Cuttack.CDMO Adhar Nayak said he had directed medical officers of all CHCs to get the blood samples of suspected dengue patients in the villages under Tihidi and Basudevpur blocks tested. “I have categorically asked them to test blood samples of the people returning from Angul, Talcher, Jharsuguda, Bhubaneswar and other dengue-hit districts. Health workers have been alerted accordingly,” he said.Soon after the news of suspected dengue patients spread, a meeting of all health officials was convened.
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