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AMERICAN PEDIATRICS HEALTHCARE &
PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONGRESS
Pediatric Healthcare & Pediatric Infections 2017
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ndia depends on the monsoon rains to sustain agriculture
productivity since millions of farmers rely on it for their
survival. The monsoon rains also triggers serious outbreak
of microbial diseases. The weather reports nowadays
can precisely predict the rainfall patterns ahead and the
government agencies should be prepared well in advance
to counter microbial outbreaks immediately after heavy
rains and floods. India needs to add more sophisticated
laboratories in villages to containmicrobial disease outbreaks
on the grassroots level. In 2004, India started the Integrated
Disease Surveillance Program and nearly 90% districts were
regularly providing status reports. But, what is required now
is to increase the village and block-level coverage and then
only the whole country can be brought under systematic
surveillance. The government fs India’s 12th Plan (2012–17)
budget has allocated USD 98 million for disease surveillance
work. But, more funds are needed to cover the entire nation
that has a population of over 1.3 billion people. Then, the
microbial surveillance network including the provision
of latest rapid diagnostic tools will become easier for the
healthcare sector.
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agoram@tajen.edu.twIndia must strengthen the microbial disease monitoring network
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
Tajen University, Taiwan