One more case of dengue was reported in the provisional State Capital on Monday. The 14-year-old boy, a resident of Roshanabad in Haridwar district was admitted to the Himalayan Hospital Jollygrant on July 19 with symptoms of dengue. The blood sample of the boy was tested for confirmatory dengue test, Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) on Monday and the test was found positive.
Alarmed district health authorities have informed the hospital about the outcome of the test. With this the number of the patients found positive for dengue this season have risen to two.
District Vector Borne Diseases Officer JP Bahuguna said that the 28 samples of the suspected patients of the disease were tested for ElISA on the day. He claimed that the boy found positive for the disease is recovering at the hospital.
The first case of dengue in the city was found on July 20 when a 45-year-old patient a resident of Bijnore (Uttar Pradesh) was reported positive. The health authorities in the district are claiming to be on active mode to combat the disease. The health workers are concentrating source reduction of the vector of disease, the Aedes mosquito. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the district, Dr TC Pant has directed the department to be on an active mode for the disease. All the hospitals have been asked to create an isolation ward for treatment of the patients.
As many as 1,434 cases of dengue were reported by the district health department last year after collecting samples of 41,325 suspected patients. large numbers of patients were reported from lakhibagh area of the city. Incidentally the number of dengue cases witnessed a sharp increase last year from 829 cases reported in the year 2015.