Communicable disease surveillance and response system

Abstract

The latest studies estimate in Sri Lanka around 5 million people living in areas of dengue risk, over 32,000 infections so far in this year and more than 50 deaths. Though government of Sri Lanka has spent millions, precise system not yet been instigated. It is learned that the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) are the key people to be addressed to implement proper communicable disease surveillance system. Present manual system retard the entire process of reporting patients and breeding locations of mosquitos and other relevant information and never been adopted a centralized mechanism. Awareness and the active participation of the community is a vital factor to successes such a system. Hence this system is a participatory Web-Mobile and GIS based system which developed to address burden of dengue and other similar epidemic disseises in Sri Lanka. This system enriched with latest technologies in mobile applications, Web and Geographic Information Systems. This system is capable of monitor trends in the distribution and spread of dengue over time geographically for early response also possible to report dengue breeding locations and patient’s locations with various related data using mobile applications further automated alerting system has developed for PHIs and related authorities based on community mapping. Drone mapping is used to map dengue risk areas, Water logged places, malfunctioning drainage systems, garbage dumps, and/or any potential endemic areas will be marked as risk areas with the use of aerial photos and videos. Live monitoring of the dengue risk areas using drone is a vital factor hence this system get the live streams from the high flying drones in-order to monitor present condition of the risk areas. Hotspot analysis and various statistics reports enhance the risks of individual’s surroundings.