Earlier in the day, Nadda met Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain to discuss the situation and assured all support to the city government, while asserting that no patient is being turned away without treatment and there is no shortage of doctors and drugs.
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As per the reports of civic bodies that in the year 2015, the highest number of dengue cases were reported with a total of 15,876 people infected by the vector-borne disease and 60 people lost their life in last year due to the dengue.
Delhi so far has witnessed the death of 10 patients, who were suffering from chikungunya along with other health ailments also.
Incidentally, one suspected chikungunya death has also been reported at the AIIMS, but hospital authorities today said they have not yet confirmed it. Jain said 1,000 extra beds were being arranged even in state-run hospitals even has he added, “At our hospital, about 1,500 beds are lying vacant”.
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The Centre has requested all States and Union Territories (UTs) to declare dengue as notifiable disease for improving reporting and for taking preventive measures in the affected areas. “He accepted my case and all arrangements have been made”, Jain said.
More than 12,250 cases of chikungunya have been reported across India until the end of August, according to the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme.
Nadda stated that the issue of helping with the bed-strength in the Central Government hospitals was discussed. So now, the government should wake up and announce the the spreading of Chikungunya and Dengue is a national health emergency.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Shalimar Bagh Fortis also reported the death of one elderly patient each, who were admitted with chikungunya fever which aggravated their chronic problems of heart and other infections.
He told reporters: “People of Delhi have no need to panic”.
As the city reels under a major health crisis, the entire Delhi cabinet except tourism minister Kapil Mishra was missing from action as ministers, including Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Gopal Rai, are out of station. New Delhi is now battling an outbreak of chikungunya, dengue and other vector-borne diseases. But still, we have sought a detailed report from Delhi government.
However, former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit pointed out that the government was slow to take care of fumigation in the state.
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As the outcry over an onslaught of viral diseases in the Capital reaches fever-pitch and hospitals continue to struggle under an unrelenting tide of patients, the men and women in white have also started to fall ill. “We had reported instances where patients had developed acute flaccid paralysis – a complication not commonly reported among chikungunya patients”.
