Dengue crisis continued to rattle Delhi with a six-year-old boy and a woman succumbing to the vector-borne disease, raising the toll to 11 until now.
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Two families have alleged in recent days that their children died after being denied treatment at hospitals. Avinashs parents who were sent back from 5 hospitals, could not deal with the loss of their child and committed suicide by jumping off a 4 storey building.
Here’s the full report.
Hospitals and clinics across the city have been inundated with patients, putting a strain on emergency services.
Dengue cases usually peak during and just after the rainy season, which normally lasts from June to September.
Authorities have threatened to cancel the licenses of private hospitals in the Indian capital if they turn away patients suffering from dengue fever.
The AAP government also announced 1031 as dengue helpline and asked private hospitals to increase number of beds. It has directed that dengue patients get first priority and that hospitals even defer elective surgeries to accommodate dengue patients.
The authorities ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death after media reported that the boy was refused admission at five private hospitals. With a total of 33 cases of dengue reported here, reports said worried residents are flocking the Ayurvedic therapy for succour, though five major medical colleges have been on standby to face the epidemic in the district. It is a very sad and terrible situation in government hospitals. “Would it have affected their profit margin so much?”
Delhi BJP leader Satish Upadhyay on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as to why his government had not spent money on educating the public about ways to prevent the spread of dengue.
Commenting over the allegations of hospital staff sending the patient back home on September 9, Medical Superintendent Dr A K Rai said, “As per our records, no patient by this name had come to us on 9th”.
The serological tests are yet to ascertain the prevelance of dengue strain in the city, according to National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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“In the past one month, 40 people have died in Kirari Assembly constituency in north-west Delhi with dengue-like symptoms”. But such extraordinary measures are also an embarrassing testimony to the government’s failure to bolster hospital capacity.
