EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 651, CUTTACK, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018/ BAISAKHA 3, 1940

HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 21st April, 2018

No.12126–HFW-SCH-NVBDCP-0004/2017/H.— Whereas the Government of

Odisha are satisfied that the State of Odisha is threatened with the outbreak of dangerous

diseases, such as Malaria, Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and that the ordinary

provisions of law for the time being in force are insufficient for the purpose;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 2 of the Epidemic

Diseases Act, 1897 (3 of 1897), the State Government do hereby make the following

regulations, namely: –

1. Short title and extent:— (1) These regulations may be called the Odisha

Epidemic Diseases (Malaria, Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis) Regulations, 2018.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Odisha.

2. Definitions:— In these regulation unless the context otherwise requires, –

(a) ‘Act’ means the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (3 of 1897);

(b) “Epidemic Disease” means Malaria, Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis

(JE);

(c) “Inspecting Officer” means an officer appointed by the Director of Public

Health, Odisha or the Chief District Medical and Public Health Officer

(CDM&PHO) of the district concerned;

(d) “Passive Surveillance Centre” means any place which may be declared

by the Collector-cum-District Magistrate concerned to be a Passive

Surveillance Centre, where a patient reports a case of fever.

3. Powers and functions of the Inspecting Officer:— (1) An Inspecting Officer,

who is unavoidably prevented from discharging all or any of the powers and functions,

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may, by order, in writing, appoint District Public Health Officer and Additional District Public

Health Officer (Vector Borne Diseases) or such other officer to discharge such function.

(2) Every officer so appointed shall, so far as such functions are concerned, be

deemed to be an Inspecting Officer for the purpose of these regulations.

(3) An Inspecting Officer may enter any premises for the purpose of fever

surveillance, treatment, anti-larval measures or fogging.

(4) He may also authorize other person of his team to enter such premises along

with him, if he considers necessary.

(5) An Inspecting Officer may put any question as he thinks fit in order to ascertain

whether there is any reason to believe or suspect that such person is or may be suffering

from any of the epidemic disease and such person shall give answer to him.

(6) Where as a result of such inspection or examination or otherwise, the Inspecting

Officer considers that there is reason to believe or suspect that such person is or may be

infected with any of the epidemic disease, he may direct such person to give his blood

slide or blood sample for examination and to take such treatment as the Inspecting Officer

may deem fit and in case of the minor, such order shall be directed to the guardians or any

other adult member of the family of the minor.

(7) The Inspecting Officer may order that the premises to be sprayed with the

insecticide or the domestic water collection to be treated with Larvicides.

4. Procedure to be followed in case of suspicion or confirmed cases:— (1)

The doctors in Government Health Institutions and the registered medical private

practitioners in private Hospitals or Clinics are required to get the blood slides prepared for

each case of fever reported besides the presently adopted procedure of Rapid Diagnostic

Test (RDT) to test malaria by them.

(2) The RDT to be used for diagnosis will be only Antigen Detecting Rapid Test and

should be technically approved by the National Programme Division.

(3) A patient can be declared positive for Malaria only on the basis of microscopic or

RDT result and not by clinical guessing.

(4) The Information of the positive case of the Malaria shall be sent to the nearest

Government Health Facility centre immediately after the diagnosis.

(5) The blood slide of the positive cases shall also be submitted to the

representative of the Department of Health and Family Welfare within seven days.

(6) The above functionaries shall ensure the complete Radical Treatment of Malaria

Positive cases with Chloroquine or Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) alongwith

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Primaquine as per the National Drug Policy of Malaria issued by the Government of India

and the Government of Odisha, from time to time.

5. Information of persons suffering from epidemic disease:— The doctors in

Government Health Institutions and the registered medical private practitioners of the

private hospitals or clinics are required to, immediately, inform the office of the Additional

District Public Health Officer (Vector Borne Diseases) or office of the Chief District Medical

and Public Health Officer (CDM&PHO) of the concerned district if a suspected case of

Dengue is reported at their health institution.

6. Testing of blood sample:— (1) The blood samples of all Dengue or Japanese

Encephalitis (JE) suspected cases shall be sent to the Sentinel Surveillance Labs which

have been set up at the Government Health Institutions of the concerned district.

(2) Both Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) tests shall be done by ELISA

(Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay) technique.

(3) The information of the positive cases of the Dengue or Japanese Encephalitis

(JE) shall be sent to the office of the Additional District Public Health Officer (Vector Borne

Diseases) or office of the Chief District Medical and Public Health Officer (CDM&PHO)

immediately after the diagnosis.

7. Guidelines of State and Central Government to be followed:— The

management of the Epidemic Diseases, suspected or confirmed cases, needs to be done

as per the guidelines issued by the Government of India, from time to time and available

on the website of the Directorate of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme

(NVBDCP), Government of India.

8. Enforcement and validity:— These regulations shall come into force at once

and shall remain valid for two years from the date of their publication in the official Gazette.

9. Liability of penalty:— Violation of any of the provisions of these regulations shall

deemed to be an offence committed under section 3 of the Act.

By Orders of the Governor

Dr. P. K. MEHERDA

Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government

Printed and published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

Ex. Gaz. 128-173+100