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The High Court of Uttarakhand has directed the Central Government to provide adequate assistance to Uttarakhand for controlling dengue. Further, the court has directed the State Government to increase the number of hospitals for treatment of dengue patients in the State. In every Government hospital, separate wards should be established for the treatment of dengue patients, the court further directed the State Government.
The high court issued these directions while hearing on a public interest litigation filed by Dehradun resident Rohit Dhyani. The petitioner had stated that there are no separate wards in hospitals and the number of beds is inadequate for facilitating the treatment of dengue patients. In response to this, the state government had informed the court that in 2016, a total of 2146 dengue patients had been found in the state. Dengue kit and medicines are available in all hospitals of the state under the Central Government’s national vectore borne disease control programme. The State Government had further stated that the Central Government had named seven hospitals in the state as ‘sentinels’. These hospitals are to monitor dengue and test for dengue free of cost. These hospitals include the Government Doon Medical College hospital, Jolly Grant hospital, the government medical college and base hospital in Haldwani, Srinagar medical college hospital, district hospital in Rudrapur and the Coronation hospital in Dehradun.