Nine dead, Over 2000 Affected of Dengue

Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi:  Atleast nine people have died and more than 2000 are suffering due to dengue in the national capital.Some doctors are also creating panic among Dengue patients for low platelate count, while the others doctors are saying that low platelate count may not necessarily mean dengue or at least may not be reason  to panic. The disease’s worst outbreak in the last five years.
Over 2000 dengue cases have been reported in Delhi so far with just 600 in the last one week alone. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s government, on Monday, ordered 1,000 extra beds in hospitals to treat dengue patients. Doctors at state-run hospitals have been told to cancel their leave immediately.
The situation can be imagin by the suicide of a couple whose seven-year-old son died from the fever allegedly after being refused treatment at a number of Delhi hospitals. A magisterial probe has been ordered into the child’s death.
“Platelet counts are not reliable and do not indicate anything. In other words platelet deficiency is not alarming neither can platelet transfusion save anyone’s life” said Dr. K.K.Aggarwal, seceretary general, IMA.
“This is the worst outbreak in the last five years and it is going to further increase as the weather remains humid,” YK Mann, director of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, told.
Dengue fever, also known as “breakbone disease” which has no known vaccination or cure, strikes fear into the citizens of Delhi when it arrives with the monsoon rains.
Hospitals across the capital are stretched to breaking, with patients sharing beds and scores jostling at government health facilities for free tests for the fever.
Transmitted to humans by the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito, dengue causes high fever, headaches, itching and joint pains that last about a week.