Dengue toll on the rise, city turns to home remedies

“We came to the hospital five days ago, but we will have to leave from here, as doctors are not paying attention”.

Party leaders Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh, Dilip Pandey and Saurabh Bhardwaj will be present during the hangout. If they feel worse (e.g., develop vomiting and severe abdominal pain) in the first 24 hours after the fever declines, they should go immediately to the hospital. But we have also requested all the patients to try and visit the government hospitals and lab for the tests.

Lawyer Ashok Aggarwal of the NGO Social Jurist, who has worked on getting EWS patients free healthcare, said the situation in government and corporation hospitals was quite bad. He said the government was exploring the idea of taking over private hospitals for a temporary period during an exigency. It is stated that the hospitals had refused treatment to these innocent kids raging with dengue fever and this callous behavior has led to action on the Governmental level. “All of them said “we don’t have beds”, Manoj recounted.

The lad’s medical reports revealed he was referred to five leading private hospitals in the capital.

With Aman’s death, the dengue death toll in the city has risen to 10. According to municipality officials, more than 190 government buildings have been fined while over 3,300 of them have been served notices. Describing it as a gross negligence on the part of the Resident Commissioner, New Delhi, leader of the Opposition Narasingh Mishra said that the state government should have provided all help. At least 3613 confirmed cases of dengue fever were reported and more than 50 people died in the outbreak.

The Safdarjung Hospital in a statement said the parents had taken the child away on their own after medicines were prescribed to him. “Dengue wards have been established in community health centres (CHCs) and medical colleges as well”, he said. “For me, developing a dengue vaccine for India is like putting a man on the moon, it is of that importance”, said Dr Navin Khanna, dengue researcher at the worldwide Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi. What has the state government done in this regard?

Jawahar Yadav, the officer on special duty (OSD) to CM Khattar, said the Haryana government will address all concerns, including several taxes imposed on it in the next one week.