Six new cases of dengue surfaced in the provisional State Capital on Tuesday taking the number of people affected by the disease to 28 this season.
The district health department received positive Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) reports of samples of six patients on the day out of them five patients belong to Haridwar while one is a resident of Rani Pokhari in Dehradun. All of these patients are hospitalised in different hospitals of Dehradun.
The report of six dengue cases in a day has jolted the Health Department which being embroiled on the Swine Flu front was feeling somewhat relieved on Dengue this year. The department has so far reported 28 cases of the dengue out of which 21 are from Haridwar district. The department has collected samples of 2141 patients this year out of which 28 patients have been found positive in ElISA.
The health department reported as many as 1,434 cases of Dengue last year after collecting samples of 4,1325 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.
Dengue is spread by Aedes Aezypti or tiger mosquito. It has characteristic stripes on its body due which it is called tiger mosquito. It strikes during day time and experts suggest that people should wear full sleeved clothes to prevent mosquito bite.
Meanwhile one more patient of Swine flu was reported on Tuesday. The 77 year old patient, a resident of Dl road was admitted in the Vaish nursing home on August 14. What is worrisome that more and more children and elderly are being detected with virus of H1 N1 this seasonIJ The medical experts are of the view that the children and the old are more susceptible for the disease on account of weak immunity.
The district health department has so far reported 88 cases of the disease out of which 35 cases were reported in July while 37 cases have been reported so far in August. The District in-charge of Integrateda Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Puneet Chandra said that 29 patients suffering from the disease are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of Dehradun. Of them eleven are admitted in the Himalayan hospital Jollygrant, six in Associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC), four each in Synergy and Max hospital and three are in Mahant Indiresh Hospital while one patient is undergoing treatment at Kailash hospital.