Dengue patients’ figure rises to 99

HYDERABAD: As the number of infected patients of Dengue virus continues to mount unabated in Hyderabad, 99 persons have been found infected with the mosquito transmitted disease.

Focal Person for Dengue Virus, Dr. Ahmed Hyder told APP Saturday that 82 dengue cases had been confirmed in the district while the 17 others receiving treatment there belong to different areas of the province.

He informed that besides the Civil Hospital, patients had also been admitted to other public and private hospitals.

He further apprised that patients were being offered free treatment including the platelets kits and medical tests. He advised people that if they observe symptoms like chills, headache, nausea or vomiting, pain upon moving the eyes and low backache than they should immediately consult a specialist doctor as those conditions crop up during the initial days of dengue infection.

In the later stages painful aching in legs and joints, temperature up to 104 F, low heart rate or bradycardia and low blood pressure, reddening of eyes, pale pink rashes over the face and swelling of glands occurs, he added.

To a question, he responded that dengue patients tested with having 60,000 or less blood platelets were quickly kept under observation because in the normal people the platelets range is between 150,000 to 450,000.Separately, the district government of Hyderabad claims of having carried out fumigation of all parts of the city, however, patients, suffering from different illnesses, as well as their attendants at the Civil Hospital fear for being caught by dengue virus as they complain about a profusion of mosquitoes at a place where the highest number of dengue patients were admitted.

On the other hand, EDO Health Dr. Baksh Ali Pitafi said that although fumigation drive in the city was yet to complete but he himself had witnessed the sanitization and fumigation work at relief camps in Hyderabad. He claimed that none of the flood survivors in the camps was found infected with dengue or malaria.