Dengue havoc in Chandigarh: CII Vice-Chairman dies of dengue, beds filled in hospitals, patients being treated on stretchers

Chandigarh Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Vice President Dr. Deepak Kansal has died of dengue. Sector 16 resident Kansal's dengue test was conducted recently after his condition worsened due to fever. in which dengue was confirmed.

He succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mohali. 55-year-old Kasal is survived by his parents, wife and a son, and a daughter. Although the health department is not yet officially confirming it, his family members have confirmed that he has dengue.

The situation is getting worse due to dengue in Chandigarh. There are no beds left in hospitals. Patients are being treated on stretchers to save their lives. On the one hand, the health department is claiming to have completed the preparations to prevent dengue, while on the other hand, the reality is shocking.

Paper orders are being issued in the name of rescue but standards are being flouted in the hospital itself. Alam is that since the 20-bed dengue ward built in the emergency of GMSH-16 is full, patients are being admitted along with normal patients in ENT, surgery, medicine ward.

Not only this, for the safety of those patients, arrangements have not even been made to install mosquito nets in those wards. However, taking the situation of Mohali and Panchkula seriously, the administration has also started strengthening the paperwork to prevent dengue.

Issuing instructions to the Corporation and the Health Department, the administration has asked to run the campaign. Apart from this, fogging, issuing notices to the careless, and making people aware has also been asked. The corporation has been asked to provide five cleaning inspectors, 50 builders, 1 car, 4 fogging machines for this campaign. At the same time, the Health Department has asked Health Director, Dr. Suman Singh, to identify the hotspots.

Weakness does not come from giving platelets

Head of PGI Transfusion Medicine Prof. Ratiram Sharma said that the demand for platelets has increased by 20 to 25 percent as compared to normal days. Giving platelets does not cause weakness. Can be given twice a month and 24 times a year. Only platelets are taken from the blood through a machine from the donor of platelets.

A separate arrangement made for the donor

Rakesh Kumar Sangar, president of Shri Shiv Kawand Mahasangh Charitable Trust, says that the health department should make separate arrangements for platelets donors in the hospital. Because voluntary donors have to wait for five to seven hours to give platelets.

Do this to prevent dengue

Drain water from small containers and places where water is always full, wear full-sleeved clothes, use mosquito nets, avoid collecting water, do not leave the collected water open, use insecticides.

This is how dengue spreads

Dengue is spread through the bite of the female Aedes mosquito. After biting a dengue patient, the infection is transmitted by biting a healthy person. This mosquito bites during the day and lives in clean places.

hospitalized patient

PGI-143

GMSH 16- 120 patients

GMCH 32- 142

Since September so many dengue sufferers have been found

PGI- 480

GMCH 32 - 400

GMSH 16- 190

The Health Department made every effort to control the peak situation of Covid. Now the focus is on controlling the situation in dengue also. Dr. Suman Singh, Director Health.