Overview

• Union Health Minister J P Nadda issued an advisory to chief ministers urging vigilance and intensified prevention and community awareness for dengue and malaria.
• State health ministers were told to personally review the situation and submit state action plans within 20 days.
• Hospitals, including central facilities, were directed to ensure adequate drugs, diagnostics, beds, and mosquito-free premises.
• A high-level review was ordered for Delhi–NCR to assess the dengue situation as recent rains and water stagnation create breeding sites.
• Latest reports show 499 dengue, 235 malaria, and 37 chikungunya cases in Delhi this year, while Mumbai logged higher August counts than July (1,555 malaria, 1,159 dengue, 220 chikungunya), alongside expanded surveillance, free testing through 869 sentinel hospitals and 27 apex labs, ongoing kit supplies, and a reiterated 2030 malaria elimination goal following a roughly 78% drop in cases and deaths since 2015.