The other two – Imran Hussain and Sandeep Kumar – are on Haj pilgrimage and in prison over a sex scandal respectively.Even the NDMC Mayor Sanjeev Nayyar is out of India on a foreign trip.The absence of Delhi’s top leaders at a time of crisis reveals just how anxious the political leadership is when it comes to the common man’s woes.According to a municipal report released today, at least 1,057 cases of this vector-borne disease have been recorded till September 10, however, hospitals in the city altogether are reporting much higher number.Lalit Dar of Department of Microbiology at AIIMS said, “At our laboratories, 1,360 chikungunya blood test samples have tested positive in the last till yesterday”.
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“This case was different”. These are the first 4 cases of deaths caused by this vector-borne disease.
In Delhi, the number of dengue and chikungunya cases crossed the mark of 1,000 last week, as the vector-borne diseases is spreading at a very fast pace.
Lalit Dar of Department of Microbiology at AIIMS said, “At our laboratories, 1,360 chikungunya blood test samples have tested positive till yesterday”.
“Lots of patients arrive in the national capital in critical condition”.
According to reports, the chikungunya cases in the national capital has increased to over 1,000 this season, marking a jump of almost 90 per cent from its count last week. Safdarjung Hospital which received over a 1,000 patients in its fever clinics recently, has reported as many as 328 dengue cases and 532 cases of chikungunya this season.
However, the civic bodies data shows a lower count.
For SDMC, which reported the highest number of people diagnosed with chikungunya, its four zone recorded cases as follows – West (56), Central (57), South (56) and Najafgarh (33). Among those affected by the mosquito-borne diseases are a number of doctors of both central and Delhi government hospitals, leading to a staff crunch in many departments. The NDMC and EDMC recorded 105 and 70 cases respectively while 374 cases were reported from areas falling outside the jurisdiction of municipal corporations in the city. In Delhi, according to figures put up by NVBDCP, 432 cases of chikungunya have been reported.
Three people died of chikangunya on Monday, the first deaths from that disease in the capital. This year, 652 confirmed cases of dengue have come to the fore.
“It is the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that has to take preventive steps like fogging and sanitation in the city to check the spread of dengue and chikungunya”.
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Mishra, meanwhile, appealed to the people of Delhi not to panic and warned private hospitals not to deny treatment to patients.
