Implementation of epidemic disease act: An experience from a North Indian jurisdiction

[...]the coordination between the Department of Health Administration with other departments such as municipal corporation to check the leakage points and stagnation of water, police department for proper enforcement of Act, schools for creating awareness, and Chandigarh administration proved successful in containment of dengue cases in region. [...]the awareness among community increased and even private laboratories started reporting positive cases to the authorities. Swati Negi1, Avinash Shroff1, Anil Garg2, Gaurav Aggarwal3, Jitendra Kumar Meena4, Sonu Goel5 1MPH Scholar, Department of Community Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 2State Surveillance Officer for Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Department of Health and Family Welfare, UT-Chandigarh, 3Anti Malaria Officer, Department of Health and Family Welfare, UT-Chandigarh, 4Senior Resident, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS Jodhpur, Additional Professor, Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Address for correspondence: