Disease Burden - Director of Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine:

Disease Burden

Epidemics

Epidemics are Public Health emergencies.
Infectious diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality.
The Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine declared following diseases as notifiable diseases. Click Here to have details of Notifiable Diseases

Control for Communicable Diseases :

The control of communicable diseases is one of the major programmes under the Primary Health Care services, especially for the disease occurring in ep

S.No Diseases S.No Diseases

1 Cerebrospinal fever 11 Typhoid/Enteric Fever

2 Chicenpox 12 Tuberculosis

3 Diptheria 13 Infectious Hepatitis

4 Leprosy 14 Epidemic influenza

5 Cholera 15 Whooping cough

6 Measles 16 Virus Encephalitis

7 Plague 17 Haemorragic fever

8 Rabies 18 Malaria

9 Scarlet fever 19 Tetanus

10 Smallpox 20 Poliomyelitis

21 AIDS

idemic forms.

Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases and suspected cholera are common among the water borne diseases. Tamil Nadu is endemic for Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases with sporadic outbreak of cholera in most of the districts throughout the year, and in epidemic proportions during the rainy seasons and peak summer periods.

All the District Level officials and executive authorities of local bodies take necessary preventive measures including proper disposal of solid wastes and maintain sanitation and hygiene chlorinate all water sources and undertake fly control measures.

The following are the details of cases and deaths due to the ADD/Cholera in Tamil Nadu.

Year	Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases			Cholera
Year	Cases	Deaths	CFR	Cases	Deaths	CFR
1997	78025	520	0.67	2261	2	0.09
1998	77677	368	0.47	1807	0	0.00
1999	74583	266	0.36	1807	1	0.06
2000	64130	195	0.30	1328	1	0.05
2001	59511	159	0.27	1110	1	0.09
2002	69889	199	0.28	1591	3	0.19
2003	58784	66	0.11	390	1	0.26
2004	77333	119	0.15	1500	2	0.13
2005	70465	65	0.09	777	1	0.13
2006	52555	22	0.04	152	1	0.66
2007	37556	19	0.05	212	0	0.00
2008	57463	62	0.11	994	0	0.00
2009	87207	21	0.02	826	0	0.00
2010	60314	45	0.07	932	1	0.1
2011	206669	24	0.01	580	0	0.00
2012	198317	17	0.01	516	0	0.00
2013	189288	24	0.01	146	0	0.00
2014	176795	6	0.00	18	0	0.00
2015	183868	0	0.00	26	0	0.00
2016	184952	0	0.00	4	0	0.00
2017	150429	1	0.00	0	0	0.00
2018	135558	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
January 2019	9767	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
February 2019	8876	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
March 2019	10471	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
April 2019	8481	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
May 2019	12965	0	0.00	0	0	0.00
JUne 2019	11132	0	0.00	0	0	0.00

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases, a premier Institution of the Director General of Health Services, Government of India, provide necessary technical support to the State and districts (Dharmapuri and Madurai) in the area of Man Power Training, Communication equipment's facilities and setting up of Laboratory services.

NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN TAMILNADU

The objective of the programme is capacity building at District, Regional and State levels for disease surveillance and appropriate response to early warning signals of outbreaks of communicable diseases. The programme will be implemented by the state health authorities through the existing health infrastructure and surveillance system strengthened through training of the medical and paramedical personnel, upgradation of laboratories, communication and data processing systems.

National Surveillance Programme For Communicable Diseases has been launched in two Revenue districts, Dharmapuri and Madurai during 1998-1999 in Tamil Nadu as per the guidelines of Government of India.

The above two districts have been selected by the Govt. of India based on the incidence of Dengue in Dharmapuri District and Leptospirosis in Madurai District.

As per the instructions of the NICD, Govt. of India, the following districts have been proposed under this programme for the years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. The total No. of Revenue districts under this programme will be five in Tamil Nadu.

            1.   1998-99       1) Dharmapuri, 2) Madurai   (already implemented)
            2.   2000-01       1) Coimbatore    2) Salem
            3.   2001-02       1)Villupuram

Industrial Hygiene and Health

The Water Analysis Laboratories established at Chennai and Coimbatore collect and examine water samples from various protected water sources to control pollution and contamination of drinking water. These laboratories also assist the Tamil Nadu pollution control board in examining the samples of Industrial wastes and conduct field surveys to ensure the prevention and control of environmental and industrial pollution.

Air pollution surveys are also carried out around the industries to asses air quality. Efforts are also taken for abatement of nuisance and classifying the industrial and residential areas.