UP: Dengue cases

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Five families in Ghaziabad shows Dengue symptoms
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Posted On :17-Sep-2009 15:46:12 News Source: Anant Paliwal
Aditya Mega City Building, Indrapuram

Ghaziabad: 5 families living in a housing society in Ghaziabad have shown symptoms of Dengue fever. There blood samples have been sent to the lab for test. They all are being treated by a private doctor. However, the district administration has denied any such case in the city.

The families are living in the Aditya Mega City located in the Indirapuram area. They are showing signs of Dendue for past 2-3 days and have consulted a private doctor. The doctor has sent there blood samples for the test in a lab in Delhi. If the labs report will come positive, then it will be a setback for the local health administration as till date no necessary measure have been taken by the officials. The District administration has no news so far that any body is being infected with the fever.

 

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...th-reported-from-city/articleshow/5117812.cms

First dengue death reported from city
TNN 13 October 2009, 06:09am IST

LUCKNOW: The first dengue death of the season was reported at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here on
Monday.

Hospital records indicated that the patient was Ashish Nishad, a 24-year-old resident of Snehanagar area of Alambagh.

Ashish was admitted to the SGPGIMS on Tuesday morning as a referred case from a private hospital in Alambagh. Doctors said that there was very little improvement in his condition and in the course of treatment and he died late on Sunday night.

Family members told reporters that Ashish was suffering from high fever for the past one week. He was initially taken to a local doctor who referred him to a private hospital. But his condition did not improve and the hospital sent Ashish to the SGPGIMS.

Health officials were taken aback by the confirmed dengue death. Panic-stricken officials directed district malaria officer (DMO) and additional director (AD), communicable diseases, to undertake intensive measures as fogging, sprinkling pesticides to check mosquito menace.

 

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One more dies of ?dengue?, but CMO still puts toll at zero
Posted: Friday , Oct 16, 2009 at 0110 hrs

Lucknow:
A 22-year-old youth died of suspected dengue fever on Thursday, three days after one Ashish Nishad died of the vector-borne disease on Monday in Lucknow.

But according to the state government, there has been no case of dengue death in the city this season.

A day after SGPGI said five more patients ? three from the state capital and two from other districts ? have been tested positive for dengue, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Lucknow , Dr A K Shukla, on Thursday grudgingly admitted that the three patients admitted at SGPGI, have tested positive.

?Three patients at the SGPGI have been found positive of dengue but both the deaths in the city were not due to the vector-borne disease,? said Shukla.

?Ravi Verma, an employee of Eureka Forbes, was admitted to a private hospital on October 10 and shifted to another hospital three days later. He had complained of stomach ache. He did not die due to dengue,? Shukla said.

According to him, when a tube was inserted into Verma?s body while he was admitted at CSMMU, some blood oozed out from his nose. The CMO?s report to Director General Health that was sent on Thursday said Nishad died of ?cardio respiratory arrest? because of ?intracranial hemorrhage? and not ?dengue fever hemorrhage?.

According to a report of the state Health department, eight cases of dengue have been confirmed in the state from January 1 to October 15 ? two from Lucknow, three from Kanpur Nagar and one each from Hardoi, Barelli and Sultanpur. The latest three cases of Lucknow have not been included in the report. ?Unlike swine flu, we are not expected to send reports of dengue everyday to the health department or the CMO. We will send consolidated report to the authorities after a few days,? a source at SGPGI said.

Precautionary measures, meanwhile, are being taken by the health authorities to prevent further spread of the disease. ?The drive to educate people of the affected area is on,? said Shukla. ?All the 34 patients who complained of fever in Alambagh area are already on medication and we are taking steps to prevent stagnation of water.?