Dominican Republic: 2021 Dengue

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Dominican Republic: A dozen children admitted to Santo Domingo hospital with dengue
by News Desk
September 21, 2021

Twelve children were admitted over the weekend to the Robert Reid Cabral children’s hospital, the director of the center, Clemente Terrero, reported on Monday.

Currently the center has 14 children interned due to the disease.

“The dengue situation continues to be active, at the weekend we admitted 12 patients, a total of four patients per day. We currently have 14 patients admitted to dengue wards, ”said the director.

Terrero pointed out that some of the children are in stable conditions and others are in intensive care, he did not specify the amount. “The situation so far is that dengue continues to be active in the country and in this hospital,” he reiterated.

The doctor indicated that most of the patients come from Bani, Azua, San Cristóbal and the National District.

“That is where the dengue outbreak in the Dominican Republic is mostly located up to now,” he said.

According to the latest epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Epidemiology in week 34, which runs from Sunday August 22 to Saturday 28, 92 probable cases of dengue were reported, 75 more cases than in the same period of 2020, when 17 were registered...

 

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Source: https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local...ized-for-dengue-fever-in-pediatric-hospitals/

September 28, 2021 | 3:48 pm
Increased number of children hospitalized for dengue fever in pediatric hospitals

Santo Domingo, DR

Dengue has become a frequent cause of admissions in recent weeks in the pediatric hospitals of Greater Santo Domingo.

One of them is the Hugo Mendoza Pediatric Hospital, which registered 15 minors admitted for the disease that started with a sudden high fever in the children yesterday. At the same time, the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital had 14 patients already in for treatment.

Dhamelisse Then, director of the Hugo Mendoza hospital, located in the Ciudad de la Salud, advised parents to be vigilant of the home environment to remove or monitor areas of accumulated water that become a source of mosquito breeding sites, and to go to the doctor when the child has a fever without signs of flu, decay, general malaise and headache mainly concentrated in the retro ocular part, that is to say, behind the eyes...