The deadly dengue fever has started spreading its tentacles across the State. The figure of suspected and confirmed dengue cases has crossed 277 in the State. The State health department has kept the medical centres on high alert in order to provide immediate medical relief to patients of dengue.
However, department officials claimed that the patients after falling prey to the deadly disease come to Uttarakhand during incubation period and the medical centres are reportedly fully equipped with life saving drugs to deal with any kind of emergencies. It is matter of relief for the department that no one has succumbed to the deadly disease so far.
The number of dengue fever cases has been rising with each passing day keeping the State health department on its toes for providing immediate and best medical care to the suspected and confirmed dengue cases in the State.
As per the department figures, 277 dengue fever cases were reported so far from across the State where Haridwar district (211) tops the tally followed by Udham Singh Nagar district (27) and Dehradun (22) dengue fever cases besides, rest of the remaining cases were detected from Almora, Pauri, and Pithoragarh districts.
A total of 39 dengue fever cases were reported in Dehradun and out of which 15 were from Dehradun, nine each from Haridwar and New Delhi, one each from Rudraprayag and Bageshwar and two each from Pauri and Tehri districts of Uttarakhand.
It is also equally important to mention here is that the 110 dengue fever cases were detected by the State health department in the last year. One of the department sources who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that the beds have been kept reserved in the Doon Group of Hospitals to provide immediate medical care to the suspected and confirmed dengue fever cases. “
The medical officer in-charge of the community health centres, primary health centres, and district health centres have been instructed to immediately report suspected and confirmed cases to the Chief Medical Officers of the respective districts in order to prevent the disease to epidemic in the near future,” he said, adding that While interacting with The Pioneer, Dr Gurupal Singh, Chief Medical Officer, Dehradun said that Rapid Response Team (RRT) has been already framed by the department to keep a tight vigil on suspected and confirmed dengue cases in the district.
He cleared that beds have been reserved in Pt Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital and Doon Hospital exclusively for the dengue cases. Dr Singh said that health centres and hospitals of the district has full stock of life saving drugs and medicines would be administered to patients free of cost.
He told that the rapid diagnosis kits were already provided to medicos to do the investigations. Meanwhile, the number of malaria and dengue cases has touched 24 in Shri Mahant Indresh Hospital, Dehradun alone. Out of these, two patients have been diagnosed with both dengue and malaria.
On Saturday, five new patients of dengue are admitted at the hospital besides, five patients of malaria are already admitted at SMI. The blood samples of 24 suspected new patients from hospital’s OPD and IPD have been sent for dengue investigation.
Hospital administration claimed that maximum suspected and dengue fever cases were detected from Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Haridwar district of Uttarakhand. While informing about the steps taken by the hospital administration for providing immediate medical relief to suspected and confirmed dengue fever cases, Dr VK Bihari, Additional Medical Superintendent, that these patients are being treated by Dr Sanjay Gupta, Dr SP Singh, Dr Yogesh, Dr Dorchem and Dr N Pandey.
Those patients who complaint of reducing platelet counts are being treated. Dr Bihari claimed that the hospital’s blood bank has sufficient stock of platelets and blood. He told that the patients admitted in general ward of the hospital are provided with 50 per cent discount on treatment cost.