“Have just received e-mail from Govt of India that death reported in Ganga Ram hospital of chikungunya positive patients should be probed a little more and information should be given to them”, said Sir Ganga Ram hospital chairman Dr D.S. Rana.
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Municipal Corporation data said the number of dengue, chikungunya and malaria infections stands at 1,158, 1,057 and 21 respectively. “On one side, diseases like Chikungunya and Dengue is becoming epidemic, a number of people are infected by it, and on the other hand, the central government and the Delhi government are sitting with their eyes shut and denying facts so that they can not be held responsible for it”, Mahila Congress President Shobha Oza told ANI. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital confirmed the 5 deaths in the last three weeks.
Talking about the menace of Chikungunya in the national capital, Nadda said that he has spoken to Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain and assured him of all help. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Nadda called on the public to spread greater awareness on the matter.
The Delhi health minister, Satyender Jain, flatly denied, however, that chikungunya had claimed any lives at all. But surging figures paint a completely different picture, a trend that the Indian health-policy analysts have failed to understand, and thereby tackle. And, Ashok Chauhan, 62, from Aligarh also died of chikungunya on Monday.
75-year-old J D Madan died yesterday morning at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), the fifth person to have lost life to complications triggered by chikungunya, at the hospital in last five days. “He died of multi-organ failure triggered by complications from the disease”, hospital authorities said.
A 65-year-old man today died of chikungunya at a hospital in Delhi, in what could be the first fatality from this vector-borne disease in the national capital. “We are resolving this matter with Haryana and other governments in the NCR”, he said.
However, the dengue cases are less than chikungunya, for which 1,440 blood samples have tested positive till September 13.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Thursday reported nine deaths from dengue since September 1, taking the toll in the national capital from the mosquito-borne disease to 14 so far.
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Bilkulonline.com, New Delhi, Sep 16: The Delhi government on Friday directed its Principal Secretary (urban development) and the civic bodies to notify chikungunya as dangerous/notifiable disease and issue a notification in this connection. “People should not panic as chikungunya doesn’t kill”, he added while saying that some patients, however, may have other complications.
