Don’t panic over dengue: WB govt
4 Sept 2012 7:23 AM IST
With the unofficial dengue death toll in Kolkata almost touching 20, the state government was in a rush to contain panic among the public and also intensify the dengue-control campaign in the city. While the Mayor, Sovon Chatterjee said that the KMC was doing its best to bring the situation under control, a Trinamool councillor accused that some of the panic was ‘manmade’. The official death toll figure was much less though.
The State Minister for Municipal Affairs Firhad Hakim also tried to allay fears by saying that dengue is a ‘natural process’ and not really under government's control. ‘It's cyclical and while in some years it is more, it is not so acute in other years’, he said. The state government is renewing its mosquito-control drive from Tuesday agai, said Hakim. Chandrima Bhattacharya, the Minister for Health, says, ‘We have directed the various medical colleges to have a separate fever clinic which will be dedicated to only dengue-affected people. And we have asked them to have 10 seats dedicated for this disease only.’
Another Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Majhi however accused that the crisis was manmade and that many patients who assumed that they had dengue actually were hit by a viral.’ Some patients who tested positive for the NS1 test have a viral infection but are panicking because they feel they have dengue. Some private hospitals may also be creating panic in order to reap profits’.
At a private hospital in south Kolkata, doctors said that the number of patients with dengue-like symptoms were being admitted daily, some of them in critical condition. ‘Almost all the patients have high fever, accompanied by severe joint pain,’ said Debakripa Banerjee of Belle Vue.
The State Minister for Municipal Affairs Firhad Hakim also tried to allay fears by saying that dengue is a ‘natural process’ and not really under government's control. ‘It's cyclical and while in some years it is more, it is not so acute in other years’, he said. The state government is renewing its mosquito-control drive from Tuesday agai, said Hakim. Chandrima Bhattacharya, the Minister for Health, says, ‘We have directed the various medical colleges to have a separate fever clinic which will be dedicated to only dengue-affected people. And we have asked them to have 10 seats dedicated for this disease only.’
Another Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Majhi however accused that the crisis was manmade and that many patients who assumed that they had dengue actually were hit by a viral.’ Some patients who tested positive for the NS1 test have a viral infection but are panicking because they feel they have dengue. Some private hospitals may also be creating panic in order to reap profits’.
At a private hospital in south Kolkata, doctors said that the number of patients with dengue-like symptoms were being admitted daily, some of them in critical condition. ‘Almost all the patients have high fever, accompanied by severe joint pain,’ said Debakripa Banerjee of Belle Vue.
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