Nepal: 2019 Dengue

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...-up-at-bpkihs/




Nepal | May 31, 2019
The Himalayan Times
Dengue patients up at BPKIHS
Published: May 31, 2019 1:30 pm On: Nepal

KATHMANDU: BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) based in Sunsari?s Dharan Sub-metropolis has witnessed an increasing number of patients suffering from dengue.

A health worker at the institute was quoted in Rastriya Samachar Samiti as saying that the hospital had been dealing with at least 50 dengue patients for the past three weeks, said.

According to Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City, the patients receiving treatment at BPKIHS are from Ward no. 8 and 15...

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Source: https://english.khabarhub.com/2019/01/23735/


70 dengue cases found in Dharan
Khabarhub
June 1, 2019

DHARAN: As many as 70 patients have been diagnosed with Dengue in Dharan Sub Metropolitan City. They have been undergoing treatment at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences and Bijayapur Hospital.

According to Professor Dr Gauri Shankar Sah, Director of the Institute, 60 among 114 patients who underwent blood test have been have diagnosed with Dengue. Virus of dengue is spread by female mosquitoes...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...ut-of-control/



The Himalayan Times
Dharan dengue outbreak out of control
Published: June 04, 2019 10:11 am On: Nepal
Himalayan News Service
Sunsari, June 3

With the dengue outbreak in Dharan appearing to be going out of hand, a team from the Health Service Department in Kathmandu arrived here today to monitor dengue-affected area.

So far, 75 persons are confirmed to have contracted the disease here. Earlier, as containing the outbreak looked difficult due to resources crunch at the local level, Dharan sub-metropolis had called the provincial and federal governments for help.

Today, the HSD team led by its Director General Gunaraj Lohani monitored the worst affected Dharan sub-metropolis-15.

The team will be staying in Dharan till tomorrow...

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Source: http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/n...pa-morang.html

Dengue reported in Jhapa, Morang
Jun 13, 2019-

After an alarming number of cases came to the fore in Dharan, dengue patients have been found in Morang and Jhapa districts as well.

According to the District Health Office, nine cases of dengue were found in Morang. Gyan Bahadur Basnet, chief of the DHO, said that the patients are from Sundar Haraicha, Urlabari, Belbari, Kerabari and Biratnagar Metropolis.

Likewise, three dengue patients have been reported in Jhapa recently. In total, 560 people have been diagnosed with dengue in Jhapa, Morang and Sunsari districts so far this year...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...ak-hit-region/

Dharan declared dengue outbreak-hit region
Published: June 14, 2019 1:30 pm On: Nepal
Himalayan News Service
Sunsari, June 13

With dengue spreading rampantly in Dharan, the Sunsari District Public Health Office has declared the sub-metropolis an outbreak-hit region.

The disease that first appeared on May 14 has so far been seen in more than 500 people, thus prompting the health office to make the declaration on the recommendation of a rapid response team formed by Dharan sub-metropolis and BP Koirala Institute of Health and Sciences for containing the outbreak.

?The outbreak declaration was made amidst slim possibility of controlling the disease despite our best efforts,? said the sub-metropolis health department Chief Rambabu Yadav...

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Source: https://www.nepal24hours.com/26-cont...chitwan-nepal/

26 contracted with dengue in 11 months in Chitwan Nepal

CHITWAN: A total of 26 persons were contracted with dengue in the last 11 months in the district. District Health Office tested positive for dengue among 26 while conducting blood test of 1,370 persons. Among the infected, 11 are from Chitwan district alone.
As the Office said 59 persons were tested positive while conducting blood tests of 1,291 last year...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathma...ed-in-capital/


One more dengue patient confirmed in capital
Published: July 02, 2019 1:30 pm
Himalayan News Service
Kathmandu, July 1

One dengue patient, aged 19, was admitted to Alka Hospital today. Currently residing in Imadol, the patient had a travel history to Dharan. He had arrived in the capital on Thursday.

?The patient had gone to visit his mother in Bhanumarga, Dharan. She was suffering from dengue. We suspect that the infected mosquito bit him there. He was brought to the hospital after he complained of fever,? said a patient?s relative.

?We have admitted the patient today. He has been tested positive for dengue, said Dr Nimesh Poudel of Internal Medicine at Alka Hospital.

According to Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, 1,524 people have been infected with dengue till July 1...

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Source: http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/n...in-dharan.html

Woman, 35, dies of dengue in Dharan
It is the first dengue death in the sub-metropolis this year; around 1,500 people were infected with the disease.
- Pradeep Menyangbo, SUNSARI

A 35-year-old woman from Dharan Sub-metropolis died of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, in the course of treatment at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) on Friday.

Manu Sunuwar of Bajhogara was admitted to the emergency unit of the institute on Friday afternoon. She was diagnosed with dengue during a laboratory test, said Dr Bikas Sah, director at the institute.

Dharan Sub-metropolitan City declared wards 8 and 15 as crisis-hit zones after the Health Directorate of Province 1 announced a dengue emergency in the city.

According to the BPKIHS, around 1,500 people were found infected with dengue this year. Ram Babu Yadav, chief of the sub-metropolis health unit, said Sunuwar is the first person to die of dengue in Dharan. Yadav said Sunuwar died soon after she was referred to the Intensive Care Unit of the institute.

According to the doctors involved in Sunuwar?s treatment, she died of bleeding in the lungs...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...ed-in-pokhara/

21 dengue cases detected in Pokhara
Published: August 10, 2019 12:50 pm On: Nepal
Himalayan News Service
Pokhara, August 9

As many as 21 persons have been diagnosed with dengue in Pokhara Metropolitan City, Kaski, in the past one week.

Information Officer Dr Bhojraj Gautam at Health Directorate Gandaki Province Office, Pokhara, said as many as 21 persons were found infected with dengue in the last one week alone. Rising number of dengue patients has increased possibility of dengue outbreak.

According to Gautam, eight persons were diagnosed with dengue in Ward No 8, five in Ward No 9, one each at wards 17, 4, 10 and 25. Remaining four dengue patients were from outside Kaski...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...ined-in-damak/

Dengue yet to be contained in Damak
Published: August 17, 2019 1:30 pm On: Nepal
Himalayan News Service
Jhapa, August 16

Dengue outbreak that started some three months ago in Damak Municipality has yet to come under control.

Number of dengue patients at various health facilities in the municipality has crossed 120. Health Department chief of the municipality Indra Aryal said dengue patients were being treated at Damak Hospital, Amda Hospital, LifeLine Hospital and Advanced Hospital...

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Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com/opinio...rger-outbreak/

Dengue in Kathmandu
Threat of larger outbreak
Published: August 29, 2019 8:02 am On: Opinion
Dr Sher Bahadur Pun

The ongoing monsoon, and the circulation of other infectious diseases that come with it, may lead physicians to misdiagnose or be unable to identify or manage dengue appropriately and in a timely manner

Over the past few days, a growing number of patients are being diagnosed with dengue virus infection in Kathmandu, despite having never travelled outside the city in those few days.

A press meet organised by the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division informed that at least 60 patients with dengue virus have been confirmed in Kathmandu. The number of cases that have been reported up until now is far higher compared to the previous year. Dengue in Nepal is mostly reported during October through December, which may indicate the possibility of a larger dengue outbreak in the Kathmandu Valley...

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Source: https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/d...thmandu-260725

Nepal: Dengue patients continue to visit hospitals across Kathmandu
NI Kathmandu, , Nepal Nov 08, 2019, 12.13 PM (IST)
Around 100 patients suffering from dengue fever visit hospitals across Kathmandu on an average daily, authorities have said.

"It is an unexpected outbreak following the previous one. It is unusual and occurred post the monsoons and has inflicted people majorly in Kathmandu," Dr Sher Bahadur Pun, chief of the Clinical Research Unit at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital told ANI on Thursday.

According to records provided by the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division of Nepal, six patients have died and 14,662 patients suffering from the mosquito-borne disease have been registered across the Himalayan nation between July to early November.

Prior to this 3,424 people were infected three months before the latest epidemic took over.Kathmandu and Chitwan have so far recorded 7,151 dengue cases followed by Gandaki province with 3,807 cases...

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Source: http://taipeitimes.com/News/world/ar.../04/2003726947

Wed, Dec 04, 2019 - Page 4
Mosquitoes carry dengue fever to Nepal’s mountains
The Guardian, KATHMANDU

Lilawati Awasthi is used to the risks that come from living in a remote mountainous district in the far west of Nepal. Floods, landslides and treacherous roads are a part of daily life.

However, this year she faced a new hazard: mosquitoes carrying a mystery illness.

When she began to feel sick in September she was not overly concerned at first.

“I thought it was a simple fever, but it wouldn’t go away,” said the 50-year-old. “We went to the hospital and it turned out I was suffering from dengue.”

Awasthi is one of more than 14,000 Nepalese who have been diagnosed with dengue fever since May, in an unprecedented outbreak that has left health professionals and the government reeling.

Some experts believe the actual number of infections to be closer to 140,000. Six people have died...

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Source: https://english.khabarhub.com/2019/08/60497/


13 Sri Lankan players in Nepal for SAG diagnosed with dengue
Khabarhub
December 8, 2019

KATHMANDU: 13 Sri Lankan players competing in the 13th edition of the South Asian Games (SAG) have been diagnosed with dengue.

Seven of them have been undergoing treatment at the Tripureshwor-based Blue Cross Hospital while six others have been already discharged...