Bengaluru City had seen total 241 and 208 (confirmed) suspected cases
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Bengaluru: B.Com student Ramesh (name changed), who is 18 years old, is now stable and is going to college after battling dengue and a sharp platelet count drop, at Venlakh Hospital in Chamrajpet.
“His platelet count had dropped suddenly from 40,000 to 20,000 and his fever would not subside. Luckily he is stable now and has a platelet count of 25,000,” said Ramesh's brother.
Ajay (name changed), 32, from Whitefield was admitted to Manipal Hospital on Tuesday night after his platelet count started going below normal. “He is stable and was discharged on Thursday afternoon with a platelet count of 13,500. But he is still under medication,” says his sister-in-law.
The government-run Victoria Hospital has seen 74 dengue-positive cases since January. “The BBMP should concentrate on the source and spend their resources on destroying the mosquito breeding grounds, because they are the source of all problems. Spraying and fumigation help, but they are only temporary solutions. People have not been educated comprehensively,” said Dr Devdas from the hospital.
He added that the hospital has been getting at least four cases of dengue every week. According to the latest weekly report on incidence of dengue shared by the State Department of Health and Family Welfare, of the 241 suspected cases, 208 have been tested positive since January.
Though government hospitals across the city are witnessing nearly five to ten cases of dengue every day, the BBMP has been maintaining that it has put in place systems in place to check the spread of the dreaded disease.
“There have been 153 confirmed cases of dengue and we are carrying out source reduction through link workers. We are continuing spraying and fogging as per routine,” said Dr Manoranjan Hegde, Project Director, Communicable Diseases, BBMP.
On the increasing number of incidents, he said, “We are seeing a rise because of the monsoon. Water accumulates in small places which act as breeding grounds for Aedes mosquito which is responsible for dengue. We are targeting these breeding places.”
( Source : dc )
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