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Epidemiological week no. 15 (7 to 13 Apr, 2013)
• Measles: This week a total of 41 alerts investigated, responding and monitoring to 3 outbreaks. 213 measles cases from 22 districts, while 7 deaths reported from 2 districts. Vitamin‐A drops provided to all the suspects and district health teams took action to im‐ prove vaccination in affected areas.
• 67 districts and 1933 health facili‐ ties have reported to DEWS this week 15, compared with 71 dis‐ tricts with 1952 health facilities shared weekly data in week 14, 2013 to the Disease Early Warning System (DEWS).
• 719,533 patients’ consultations were reported in week 15, 2013 compared to 659,437 consulta‐ tions reported in week 14, 2013.
• Altogether 69 alerts were investi‐ gated and response were provided to 3 outbreaks.