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Chitwan docs down with new viral fever
CHANDANI HAMAL
CHITWAN, Oct 7: Viral fever has laid low even the doctors in Chitwan after troubling common people for the past one month. Nearly 25 doctors are currently suffering from viral fever and a few have even gone to Kathmandu for treatment.
Medical Superintendent at Bharatpur Hospital Dr Keshav Raj Bhurtel said the infection of doctors has affected services at the hospital. Hospitals are running short of doctors as they are lining up for treatment along with other patients. Dr Bhurtel said the fever is different from normal viral fever and had not been properly diagnosed and the patients have to stay longer at the hospitals.
The doctors are prescribing medicines for normal viral fever, as they haven´t been able to identify the virus causing this fever even after investigation for over a month. They said the medicines have not been able to lower temperature even in one week and some have to be treated in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The doctors complain that the center has not done enough to control the fever.
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division in Kathmandu, however, said that a special team was sent from the Regional Health Directorate to Chitwan for sample collection on Tuesday and a team from the division will also be sent there soon. "We have not been doing tests till now, thinking that it could be a seasonal viral fever. Simple tests can be done even in Bharatpur. Now that the number of patients is increasing, we will have to carry tests for swine flu as well," said Dr Bishwa Raj Khanal at the division.
All the hospitals in Chitwan have been feeling the heat of viral fever for the last one month. The only government hospital in Bharatpur has been getting patients around four times its capacity of 300 beds. The patients are being treated on the floor, corridor and every available space due to lack of adequate beds.
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CHANDANI HAMAL
CHITWAN, Oct 7: Viral fever has laid low even the doctors in Chitwan after troubling common people for the past one month. Nearly 25 doctors are currently suffering from viral fever and a few have even gone to Kathmandu for treatment.
Medical Superintendent at Bharatpur Hospital Dr Keshav Raj Bhurtel said the infection of doctors has affected services at the hospital. Hospitals are running short of doctors as they are lining up for treatment along with other patients. Dr Bhurtel said the fever is different from normal viral fever and had not been properly diagnosed and the patients have to stay longer at the hospitals.
The doctors are prescribing medicines for normal viral fever, as they haven´t been able to identify the virus causing this fever even after investigation for over a month. They said the medicines have not been able to lower temperature even in one week and some have to be treated in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The doctors complain that the center has not done enough to control the fever.
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division in Kathmandu, however, said that a special team was sent from the Regional Health Directorate to Chitwan for sample collection on Tuesday and a team from the division will also be sent there soon. "We have not been doing tests till now, thinking that it could be a seasonal viral fever. Simple tests can be done even in Bharatpur. Now that the number of patients is increasing, we will have to carry tests for swine flu as well," said Dr Bishwa Raj Khanal at the division.
All the hospitals in Chitwan have been feeling the heat of viral fever for the last one month. The only government hospital in Bharatpur has been getting patients around four times its capacity of 300 beds. The patients are being treated on the floor, corridor and every available space due to lack of adequate beds.
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