Dengue: Hospitals face patient rush, govt says situation

With dengue cases having crossed the 2000-mark, hospitals in the city continued to groan under the huge rush of patients, even as the Delhi government today claimed the health situation in response to the vector-borne disease in the capital has "improved".
Thousands of patients flocked the fever clinics at hospitals for getting tested for dengue while several others were admitted for treatment.
"Even today (Sunday), a large number of patients visited the fever clinics which has been set up to deal with the dengue crisis the city is battling.
"People are still living in panic as cases refuse to go down. Several patients having slight fever have also checked in at hospital fearing they have contracted the disease," a doctor at the Safdarjung Hospital said.

Meanwhile, Delhi government today claimed that it was "winning the battle" against the deadly disease.
"Now the health situation is better and we are winning the battle the against dengue as the situation is improving," Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told reporters here.

While over 20 people have succumbed to dengue, more than 2000 cases have been reported this year.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain today conducted surprise inspection at Janakpuri's Super Speciality Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and took stock of the ongoing dengue preparations there.
Recently 200 new beds were set up at the hospital to accommodate the increasing numbers of dengue patients.

The Health minister also met representatives of School Management Committee (SMC) to spread dengue awareness in 1100 government schools in the national capital.
Meanwhile, a team of a municipal corporation staff were today allegedly not allowed to carry out dengue breeding checking at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence here, with the Delhi government saying that they had come only with the intention of "creating drama".
While the civic bodies, in a rather delayed response, have gone into special preventive drives, city residents feel the outbreak of the vector-borne disease, its worst in last five years, has exposed the "ill-preparedness" of the MCD in dealing with the menace.