ASSOCHAM said that tourism and aviation industries were heavily getting affected due to the outbreak of chiukungunya and dengue, and the rising deaths triggered by the disease.
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The world health body said that surveillance for dengue and chikungunya in India presently captures only those patients who are “laboratory confirmed at government identified sentinel hospitals”.
“In Delhi, the Central Government has a lot of capacity and if they give 10 percent beds also then also the total increase would be more than thousand beds”, he added.
Union Health Minister J P Nadda met Satyendar Jain, Health Minister of Delhi Government, here on Friday. “We have asked for a detailed report on the deaths taking place due to the vector-borne diseases in the city”.
Oza further asserted that the government should wake up and take serious action to prevent the spread of the disease and provide better medical facilities to the people.
The WHO Thursday called for strengthening India’s disease surveillance network by engaging private healthcare sector more for reliable counts of cases of dengue and chikungunya, which have claimed over 80 lives and affected more than 50,000 people across the country.
He also said that in Delhi government hospitals more than 1,500 beds are available, and there is no need for panic.
September 17: The Congress Party on Saturday accused the Centre and the Delhi government of indulging in a blame game over who was shirking responsibility for dealing with the Chikungunya and Dengue crisis, and causing vast distress to the citizens of the national capital. “When Delhi needs them, they are all out of the capital”.
“It will be analysed and the report for the same will be sent to us so that we can analyse as to why all this happened”, he added.
While the deaths in Delhi have focussed national attention on a disease – marked by fever, headaches, acute joint pains and, now, organ failure – that has seen a resurgence since 2012 after a 32-year hiatus, 77 per cent of all chikungunya cases in 2016 (until July) were reported from Karnataka, according to government health data.
The woman had tested positive for chikungunya on Sunday.
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The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme’s director Dr AC Dhariwal said the rainfall pattern in Delhi this year has led to an increase in the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can bear the dengue, chikungunya and even Zika viruses.
