233 and counting .... Senior resident doctor of SGPGI tests positive for Dengue

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</td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="3"> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lucknow, October 9:[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]With Aligarh making an entry into the list of dengue-affected places with seven cases today, 19 fresh cases were added to the Uttar Pradesh Health Directorate?s official records, pushing the number of patients stung by the deadly fever virus to 233.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The fresh cases include a senior resident doctor of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science (SGPGI), Lucknow, who tested positive for dengue today. Sunil Verma, the senior resident, was working in the SGPGI Blood Bank and had been showing symptoms of dengue for the last three days, following which an ELISA test was done on him. He was admitted to the Haematology ward this evening.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Later, members of the Resident Doctor Association met SGPGI officials and demanded treatment of stagnant water in their accommodations.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?The condition of the place where we live is pathetic. Moreover, due to civil work going on there, waterlogging is occurring even in our rooms. This is a serious problem and if not controlled in time many others can catch the virus,? said association secretary S. Goel.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?We will again meet the officials tomorrow and request them to at least get fogging done in our accommodations here,? he added.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Meanwhile, during the ongoing survey conducted by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), various breeding places for aedes aegypti larvae were found in the residential areas of Varanasi, especially near hotels. The NICD officials will submit its report to the local chief medical officer for specific fogging in the affected areas.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?We began the survey three days back and our teams have covered around 80 houses in Varanasi itself and have found various breeding places for the aedes mosquito. The survey will continue for three more days and the results will then be given to the Varanasi CMO for action,? said Dr Shaukat Kamal, Assistant Director, NICD, Varanasi.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On the other hand, following various reports of patients being cheated by quacks, Vector Borne and Communicable Diseases Director OP Pathak today made a public appeal that no one should approach any local doctor or try home medication to treat the disease.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?In case anybody is showing dengue symptoms, they should approach proper government hospitals. This will help assess the true condition of patients,? he said. [/FONT]
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Re: 233 and counting .... Senior resident doctor of SGPGI tests positive for Dengue

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</td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="3"> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New Delhi, October 9:[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The dengue outbreak has brought with it an ever-increasing demand for blood platelets. At the Indian Red Cross Society blood bank, one of the biggest in the city, the demand has gone up 15-fold. ?We usually supply around 15 units of platelets a day, we are now supplying 250 units everyday,? said Dr Vanshree Singh, medical officer at the Red Cross blood bank, adding that the demand this season is much more than in the corresponding period last year. Demand has been increasing by the day since the last week of September, said Singh.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?On October 1, we supplied around 125 to 150 units of platelets. In one week it?s gone up to 250,? she said adding that ?the demand is mainly from private hospitals, as most of them do not have the required facilities?.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]She, however, said there was no shortage of platelets at the blood bank. ?We have been able to meet the demand as we keep holding blood donation camps. The number of donors has also gone up,? she said.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At AIIMS, where a high number of dengue cases are being treated, the main blood bank has been supplying about 250 to 300 units of platelets per day, compared to 50 to 60 units through the year, according to Dr Rajpal Vohra, Professor of Opthalmology, who is co-ordinating blood donation here. The bank has had to cut out supply to other hospitals as a result.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Platelets are extracted from whole blood by a procedure called Apheresis. blood drawn from the body enters a cell separator which removes platelets by a spinning process. Platelets are collected into a sterile plastic bag, while the remainder of the blood is returned to the body. The procedure takes around two hours. Government hospitals mainly collect whole blood as Apheresis is expensive. The single-use Aphereis kit costs Rs 7,000.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]However, the advantage of Apheresis which is being used in some private hospitals, is that platelets donated during a single session are sufficient for one transfusion. if whole blood is donated, blood from 5-6 donors is needed to meet the similar requirement. [/FONT]
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