Highlights
Epidemiological week no. 12 (17 to 23 March, 2013)
• Measles: This week a total of 56 alertsinvestigated,responding and monitoring to 4 outbreaks. 462 measles cases from 35 districts, while 7 deaths reported from 6 districts. Vitamin‐A drops provided to all the suspects and district health teams took action to im‐ prove vaccination in affected ar‐ eas.
• 75 districts and 2289 health facili‐ ties have reported to DEWS this week 12, compared with 81 dis‐ tricts with 2449 health facilities shared weekly data in week 11, 2013 to the Disease Early Warning System(DEWS).
• 816,360 patients’ consultations were reported in week 12, 2013 compared to 907,704 consulta‐ tionsreported in week 11, 2013.
• Altogether 93 alerts were investi‐ gated and response were provided to 6 outbreaks.