The Centre had yesterday sought a detailed report from the Delhi government on deaths due to it and dengue, including medical history of the deceased.
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The Health Minister further assured that every Delhi Government hospital has enough number of beds to admit all infected, adding that he made an appeal to Union Health Minister JP Nadda regarding the issue of beds, which was accepted. “Prove it medically. Medically chikungunya can never be the cause of anyone’s death”.
Delhi authorities have begun to “fog” the city’s streets, spraying clouds of an insecticide and diesel mixture that kills adult mosquitoes instantly.
The Rajasthan government has chose to cancel leave of doctors and banned their transfer for at least a month as cases of chikungunya, malaria, dengue and other viral diseases are on the rise.
“The nation is now in the grips of chikungunya, dengue and malaria, which has infected numerous people in the country”, Congress leader Shobha Oza told reporters here. With hospitals in Delhi recording deaths attributable to chikungunya, there is an urgent need to study the “pathology of the virus” or the mechanism by which is causes disease, they said. The patient was brought here in a critical condition from Yashodhara Hospital in Ghaziabad on Saturday at 10:30 PM and admitted to ICU. We will be working together.
12 people have died due to complications triggered by chikungunya in Delhi this season while over 1,700 people have been affected by it.
“The remaining five death cases too are also suspected to be due to dengue. The second was addressed by the Secretary and the third was done by heads of vector borne diseases”, he said. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has issued a notice, saying the step would ensure proper monitoring of the situation and requisite remedial action.
Seventy-five-year-old J D Madan died on Thursday morning at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH).
The minister said he had visited 12 major hospitals in the capital and there were plenty of beds available in all of them for patients of vector-borne diseases. Governor Najeeb Jung also urged the people to rise above considerations of politics and fight chikungunya and dengue unitedly.
The Delhi government on Friday directed the municipal corporations to make chikungunya a notifiable disease immediately.
He said that Delhi government was “incapable of even buying a pen” as he and his state cabinet colleagues were “fully stripped of powers”.
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“By and large the message is very clear that chikungunya is not a very fatal disease, people should not get frightened”.
