“We are ready to treat all the patients”.
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The meeting was attended by Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Chief Secretary KK Sharma, Health Secretary Chandrakar Bharti along with the New Delhi Municipal Council Chairman and all three municipal commissioners as well as Medical Superintendents of all major hospitals of Delhi.
“There is no second opinion that death does not occur due to chikungunya and it does not become the cause of death”. At Safdarjung Hospital, also Centre-run, 536 chikungunya cases and 342 dengue cases have been confirmed this season. Four of these deaths took place at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH).
The fourth death was of a 38-year-old Nazish, sister-in-law of Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan, who died of dengue shock syndrome at Apollo Hospital on August 12.
Apollo Hospital authorities said that out of the five patients who died, four were men and one woman.
In a report released today on vector-borne disease cases at AIIMS, the premier institute said, “Nine dengue patients have died from September 1 till date”.
Last year, the city saw a staggering 15,867 dengue cases -the worst in 20 years-with the disease claiming 60 lives, as per municipal reports. “No one should panic, may it be chikungunya or dengue”.
In what could be the first death due to chikungunya in the national capital, 65-year-old Ramendra Pandey died yesterday. He said directions have been issued to conduct blood and other diagnostic tests at the earliest on the patients showing signs of malaria, dengue or chikungunya.
Due to rising chikungunya and dengue cases in the national capital, the Delhi Government today issued a statement ordering that all mohalla clinics, polyclinics and dispensaries would remain open for all seven days of the week, including Sunday and gazetted holidays during their working hours till October 30.
Monitoring the situation in India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it is important that the fever related data is well-represented.
Assuring that there is no cause to panic, Shri Nadda said that the Ministry has sought a detailed report from the Delhi Government on the recent death cases reported due to Chikungunya.
“We have over 100 doctors, and now 7-8 doctors are down with fever”, he said.
Over 770 cases were reported till September 3 this season.
With increasing cases of Chikungunya- Dengue and the kind of negative reaction on the tourists, the traffic is set to drop drastically, leaving a bruising impact on businesses such as hotels, airlines, taxi operators, restaurants etc.
As a precaution, the leave of doctors and other medical staff in all the Delhi government hospitals have been cancelled.
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In 2006, over 13 lakh suspected chikungunya fever cases were reported across the country, according to NVBDCP.
