Dengue: No enough beds in Madurai GRH

There is a severe shortage of beds in the Madurai GRH. The situation has forced patients to lay their beds on the floor. According to nursing sources inside Madurai GRH, due to shortage of beds in dengue ward, the patients are being admitted to other wards such as general medicine, toxicology and so on. This has been done to stop panic among the people.

Health Activist, Anandraj from Madurai, said that doctors and officials are aware that there will be an increase of dengue cases during the monsoon but they have not taken proper measures and this has resulted in deaths due to dengue. After the 2012 outbreak, doctors and the government have begun to refer to dengue as ‘mysterious fever’. Only when suspected deaths due to fever are audited, the exact reason can be found. However, the officials are not ready for it, said Anandraj. 

In the first nine months of the year, as many as 1046 persons were affected in Madurai district, said Collector K Veera Raghav Rao, on Tuesday.

After releasing the draft electoral roll at the Collectorate, he said the situation was being contained in the recent months and the numbers have been decreasing gradually. Defogging, domestic breeding checking apart from employing 900 staff and village health nurses had helped to reduce dengue cases significantly. Also proactive screening has also been done. Meanwhile, State Revenue Minister RB Udayakumar, and Madurai Collector jointly carried out inspection at Tirumangalam 

GH, in Madurai district. 

Tiruchy District Collector K Rajamani, on Tuesday said that as many as 109 persons were admitted toGH for high fever out of which 22 were tested positive for dengue. He said dengue prevention works have been going on across the district. The disease is prevalent in T-Pettai, Musiri and Manachanallur taluks and a few wards of city corporation. 

He said among the 109 persons admitted to Tiruchy GH for high fever, 80 are from Tiruchy district and 22 have tested positive for dengue. 

Meanwhile, two persons, including a school girl died in Pudukkottai and Manapparai died of dengue. 

According to sources, P Mohanapirya, a class 3 girl of Kulathur in Pudukkottai, died on Tuesday evening. Similarly, M Chinnaponnu (26) from Manapparai who was admitted to Manapparai GH for high fever on September 25, died on Tuesday evening, without responding to treatment.