Delhi: Over 1,800 dengue cases, 600 in the last one week alone

Over 1,800 dengue cases have been reported in Delhi so far with just 600 in the last one week alone.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s government, on Monday, ordered 1,000 extra beds in hospitals to treat dengue patients. Doctors at state-run hospitals have been told to cancel their leave immediately.

The government was spurred into action following the suicide of the parents of the seven-year-old boy who died from the fever allegedly after being refused treatment at a number of Delhi hospitals.

Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain told that an inquiry has been initiated against five hospitals, adding that their licenses could be cancelled if found guilty. “Five hospitals have been given notice… We will examine the CCTV footage and check all records,” Mr Jain said.

As well as the extra beds, Mr Jain has ordered “fever clinics” be set up at overwhelmed hospitals to help with the numbers. “I have ordered all government hospitals that they should not refuse to admit dengue patients even if they have to treat two patients on a single bed,” he said.

“This is the worst outbreak in the last five years and it is going to further increase as the weather remains humid,” YK Mann, director of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, told news agency AFP.

Dengue fever, also known as “breakbone disease” which has no known vaccination or cure, strikes fear into the citizens of Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains.

Hospitals across the capital are stretched to breaking, with patients sharing beds and scores jostling at government health facilities for free tests for the fever

The government’s moves come after a grief-stricken couple jumped from a four-storey building in Delhi last week, two days after their son’s death.

Transmitted to humans by the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito, dengue causes high fever, headaches, itching and joint pains that last about a week.

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Source:Ndtv