New Delhi - DENGUE MENACE

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DENGUE MENACE
By Monday, city will have new norms to control spread of dengue
Teena Thacker
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=226809​

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New Delhi, March 15:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A two-day session on dengue management at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) concluded today. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The framing of guidelines to control spread of the disease, according to officials, will be complete by Monday and will be posted to all the hospitals in the country. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Experts from the US, Thailand, Hawai and various South East Asian countries attended the seminar to share their views on the disease, which had claimed many lives in the Capital last year. At present, India follows guidelines set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to deal with the disease. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?We are drafting the guidelines to have a better control over the deadly disease. Some of the guidelines include setting up 24X7 ?dengue corner? in all city hospitals, when to admit patients with the symptoms, when the doctors should intervene, when the platelets need to be administered,? said Dr PL Joshi, Director, National Vector-borne Disease Control Programme. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?The experts are also working on other guidelines like which tests are mandatory, how to monitor the platelet count and the kind of screening needed for assessing the condition of a patient. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Monday, we will be able to set guidelines for all the hospitals,? added Dr Joshi. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dr NK Yadav, Municipal Health Officer, said,?The instructions will be universal and will be useful for patients and doctors. We will set a few parameters for handling a dengue case to avoid the problems that we faced last year.? [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The session was attended by doctors from all major government and private hospitals, including AIIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital, Sir Ganga Ram hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU), Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC). [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?The sessions have helped us to make changes in the line of treatment which we have been doing for years. The foreign experts have dealt with the disease earlier and their experience has help us ,? said an expert.[/FONT]