CHENNAI: The state government has informed the Madras high court that government’s medical facilities themselves are well equipped to provide expertise and infrastructure to give the required treatment for dengue affected patients, whatsoever is their condition. The state health secretary J. Radhakrishnan stated this in his counter affidavit filed in response to the PIL from advocate A.P.Suryaprakasam, which sought a direction to the state government to immediately issue directions to all the private nursing homes and hospitals situated in the state to provide immediate medical treatments to all dengue affected people and claim the cost of such treatment from government later.
Radhakrishnan submitted that the government was making all efforts to sensitise the public about dengue prevention and control. The state insurance scheme was a cashless facility under which no target was fixed. The assistance include reimbursement of the expenditure incurred. Under the scheme, treatment at ICUs in the empanelled private hospitals for dengue complications like shock dengue syndrome and hemorroaphic syndrome were already covered, he added.
