Minister of Health Kerala Veen George during an online meeting with PALAKKAD District Officers on the evening of 4 July 2025. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Up to 425 people entered the contact lists of two people infected NIPah in Kerale-228 of them in the Malappuram district, 110 in Palakkad and 87 in Kozhikode.
Health machines across these districts have been alerted to a high warning because the medical department is fighting to prevent the spread of Nipah. While a teenage girl from Makkaraparamba near Malappuram succumbed to 1 June, a deadly virus, a 38 -year -old woman from Thachanattukar in the Palakkad district struggles throughout his life in Moulana Hospital in Perinthalmann.
Twelve people are currently undergoing in Malappuram – five of them in an intensive care unit. One of them, however, tested negative for infection. The results of others are expected.
In Palakkad there is one person who has come into contact with an infected woman, treated in an isolated. Of the 110 people in the List of Contacts in Palakkad, 61 healthcare workers are. In Kozhikode, all 87 are on the list of healthcare professionals.
The health department will soon start a survey of houses to a circle of 3 km from infected persons in Makkaraparamba and Thachanattukar. Minister of Health Veen George said on Saturday that psychological assistance should be provided to those on contact lists.
Meanwhile, the medical department has intensified its efforts to find a source of Nipah virus that both people infected.
20 Department of Makkaraparamba, Kuru, Kuru, Koottilagadi and Panchayats in the Malappuram district.
Sixty -five teams of medical officials visited 1655 houses in Malappuram. No one found the symptoms of infection. People were recommended to stay careful. Representatives of the district physician of the LV Pameeli, technical assistants CK Suesh Kumar and M. Shahul Hameed and epidemiologist D. Kiran Raj led the survey.
A ten -year -old boy, a relative of women infected with Nipah in Thachanattukara, was hospitalized with a high fever. The doctors said they were monitoring his condition carefully.
The collector of the Palakkad Priyanka G. warned people of violating the regulations in the retention zones. The 24×7 control room was opened to resolve the situation and 26 committees for the focus to the focus were created by including specialized doctors of the Faculty of Medicine, Palakkad and higher government officials.
Also read: Restrictions of NIPAH on 20 departments in Malappuram, 6 in Palakkad
For medical officials in the Malappuram district, Nipah protocols are known because the district has witnessed Nipah’s three cases within one year. While a 14 -year -old boy died of Nipah infection near Pandikkad 21. July 2024, two months later a 24 -year -old died in Wandoor. In May this year, a 42 -year -old woman from Valancry was tested positively. Although she has survived a deadly virus, she has to recover completely.
Published – 5 July 2025 9:53
