***NOTIFICATION:-For controling of Infection, first of all remedy is this that its information should be given to high officials or related officers, so that they may take steps for preventing it.Notification means to inform local health officers about every incident of infectious disease. Be it this local officer health officer of municipal board or District Medical officer. The following are the benefits of this kind of information----
*By this officers avail opportunity of isolating patients, and doing necessary disinfection.
*By this, a helpis availed in preventing extensionof infection. They may arrange inoculation for checking extension of disease. They may arrange vaccination of T.A.B.and anticholera for saving other people from infection disease like small-pox,cholera and anteric fever.
*Real and main source of Infection can be found out.Patients of city, town and district can be found out.
*In school or other centers, extension of Infection can be controlled by isolating members of infected houses.
*By examining milk depot, and sources of water supply, sources of epidemic diseases may be found out.
*It provides opportunity to find out healthy conditions of houses.
*It provides opportunity to look after doubtful and provable patients.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES-------Information of the following disease should be provided to health officers-----
Cholera, smallpox, plague, enteric fever, dysentery dyphtheria,mumps, tuberculosis, influenza, whooping cough and measles, yellow fever, typhoid, typhus diseases.
WHO SHOULD NOTIFY ------- When a doctor understands by examining a person that he is affected by infectious disease, then it becomes his prime duty to inform health officers about it. If he does not act in such manner, actions should be taken against him under Municipal Act. Guardian or caretaker of patient should inform about infectious disease. Any person living in the house of the patient may inform about it.Manager of a hotel or other institution may inform about it.
***ISOLATION-‐----‐For controling extension of infectious diseases isolation is the only best method. Isolation time is generally that period when a patient does not remain infective for others.By isolation, the patient is separated from other person for this reason, so that, through direct or indirect sources, his Infection may not be communicated to other person.By it other persons may not be carriers of infectious diseases. The patient of infectious diseases may be isolated by putting in separate hospital and by providing place in home.In big cities, for the patients of infectious diseases there should be separate arrangement in hospitals. In hospital,there should be separate wards for various infectious diseases In these ,there should be arrangements of 144sq ft floor and 6 thousand cubic ft.per hour fresh air for each patient. It is very essential. The patient may be isolated in the home by doing separate arrangement for them. At the time of isolating in the home the following points should be kept in mind----------
*It would be very nice, if the room of patient is at upper floor.
All unnecessary furniture of the room should be ousted.
*Cloth wetted in solution carbolic acid should be used as curtain on the door.
*For airiness, so far possible windows should be kept open.
*Caretaker or nurse only should be allowed to go inside the room of patient.
*Clothes of patient should be dipped in disinfectants solution later on, they should be boiled for disinfection.
*Excrement of patient should be collected in a vessel. But,in that pot strong disinfectants solution should be kept necessarily. His excrement should be burnt or buried in the ground.
*Appropriate steps should be taken for removing flies and mosquitoes from the room of patient.
*After taking out the vessels from the room of patient, they should be disinfected completely.
*The visitors should not be allowed to enter the room of patient to see him.
*Children and workers of affected house should not be sent to their respective institutions for doing work.
*When Infection or fear is over, the patient should be given bath completely and his clothes should be changed, After this,he should be allowed to meet others.
*If due to any reason the patient dies,his deadbody should be covered with cloth wetted in the corbolic lotion and should be burnt.
*The room of patient should be disinfected completely after itis vacated by the patient.
*By this officers avail opportunity of isolating patients, and doing necessary disinfection.
*By this, a helpis availed in preventing extensionof infection. They may arrange inoculation for checking extension of disease. They may arrange vaccination of T.A.B.and anticholera for saving other people from infection disease like small-pox,cholera and anteric fever.
*Real and main source of Infection can be found out.Patients of city, town and district can be found out.
*In school or other centers, extension of Infection can be controlled by isolating members of infected houses.
*By examining milk depot, and sources of water supply, sources of epidemic diseases may be found out.
*It provides opportunity to find out healthy conditions of houses.
*It provides opportunity to look after doubtful and provable patients.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES-------Information of the following disease should be provided to health officers-----
Cholera, smallpox, plague, enteric fever, dysentery dyphtheria,mumps, tuberculosis, influenza, whooping cough and measles, yellow fever, typhoid, typhus diseases.
WHO SHOULD NOTIFY ------- When a doctor understands by examining a person that he is affected by infectious disease, then it becomes his prime duty to inform health officers about it. If he does not act in such manner, actions should be taken against him under Municipal Act. Guardian or caretaker of patient should inform about infectious disease. Any person living in the house of the patient may inform about it.Manager of a hotel or other institution may inform about it.
***ISOLATION-‐----‐For controling extension of infectious diseases isolation is the only best method. Isolation time is generally that period when a patient does not remain infective for others.By isolation, the patient is separated from other person for this reason, so that, through direct or indirect sources, his Infection may not be communicated to other person.By it other persons may not be carriers of infectious diseases. The patient of infectious diseases may be isolated by putting in separate hospital and by providing place in home.In big cities, for the patients of infectious diseases there should be separate arrangement in hospitals. In hospital,there should be separate wards for various infectious diseases In these ,there should be arrangements of 144sq ft floor and 6 thousand cubic ft.per hour fresh air for each patient. It is very essential. The patient may be isolated in the home by doing separate arrangement for them. At the time of isolating in the home the following points should be kept in mind----------
*It would be very nice, if the room of patient is at upper floor.
All unnecessary furniture of the room should be ousted.
*Cloth wetted in solution carbolic acid should be used as curtain on the door.
*For airiness, so far possible windows should be kept open.
*Caretaker or nurse only should be allowed to go inside the room of patient.
*Clothes of patient should be dipped in disinfectants solution later on, they should be boiled for disinfection.
*Excrement of patient should be collected in a vessel. But,in that pot strong disinfectants solution should be kept necessarily. His excrement should be burnt or buried in the ground.
*Appropriate steps should be taken for removing flies and mosquitoes from the room of patient.
*After taking out the vessels from the room of patient, they should be disinfected completely.
*The visitors should not be allowed to enter the room of patient to see him.
*Children and workers of affected house should not be sent to their respective institutions for doing work.
*When Infection or fear is over, the patient should be given bath completely and his clothes should be changed, After this,he should be allowed to meet others.
*If due to any reason the patient dies,his deadbody should be covered with cloth wetted in the corbolic lotion and should be burnt.
*The room of patient should be disinfected completely after itis vacated by the patient.
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