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96 in Nashik hosps for fever
Sumita Sarkar, TNN | Mar 31, 2012, 05.17AM IST
NASHIK: Fever is on the rise in the city at the onset of summer. Ninety six patients have been admitted in the municipal hospitals for fever. Nearly 320 patients have been admitted for various ailments, according to the Nashik Municipal Corporation's medical officer Dr D B Patil.
The health department of the NMC had visited 6,671 homes and checked 32,410 people in a span of eight days. Door-to-door visits revealed that fever and diarrhoea are on the rise in the city.
Of the 320 patients admitted in various municipal hospitals in the past eight days, 96 have been diagnosed with fever and 148 with diarrhoea, informed the health department. Eight patients have been admitted for dysentery, four for jaundice, 16 for typhoid, 27 for common cough and cold, nine for malaria and one person for dengue. "These are the figures of patients admitted in the municipal hospital. In private hospitals, the number of patients has increased by at least 20-30% in the last 15 days," said officials from the health department.
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Sumita Sarkar, TNN | Mar 31, 2012, 05.17AM IST
NASHIK: Fever is on the rise in the city at the onset of summer. Ninety six patients have been admitted in the municipal hospitals for fever. Nearly 320 patients have been admitted for various ailments, according to the Nashik Municipal Corporation's medical officer Dr D B Patil.
The health department of the NMC had visited 6,671 homes and checked 32,410 people in a span of eight days. Door-to-door visits revealed that fever and diarrhoea are on the rise in the city.
Of the 320 patients admitted in various municipal hospitals in the past eight days, 96 have been diagnosed with fever and 148 with diarrhoea, informed the health department. Eight patients have been admitted for dysentery, four for jaundice, 16 for typhoid, 27 for common cough and cold, nine for malaria and one person for dengue. "These are the figures of patients admitted in the municipal hospital. In private hospitals, the number of patients has increased by at least 20-30% in the last 15 days," said officials from the health department.
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