Click to play videoNew Delhi: Dengue has struck New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences again with four inmates of the hospital campus currently undergoing treatment for suspected dengue.
AIIMS authorities on Saturday confirmed that two doctors are already undergoing treatment at the hospital for mosquito-borne disease and two more were diagnosed with dengue on Saturday.
“A fourth-year student, Varun Sandhyal, was admitted to the institute’s hospital on Friday and he is being treated for suspected dengue,” AIIMS spokesman Shakti Gupta said. He said the patient was not residing in the campus and he contracted the disease from outside.
The AIIMS authorities have conducting regular fogging operations and cleaning in the campus.
"Varun was admitted to the ICU, but his condition is quite stable now," said Dr Bir Singh, head of the Disease Prevention and Outbreak Response Cell. Varun is suspected to have contracted the disease in Ghaziabad when he was visiting a relative there for 10 days. “Our campus is free of mosquitoes,” Singh, a professor of community medicine, said.
Last year, an MBBS student lost his life to dengue fever and a few others were also affected by it on the AIIMS campus. The cases then drew criticism from the public and raised serious concern over the sanitation level in the institute. Stressing that the AIIMS was not to be blamed for the present outbreak, Singh said, “The situation has improved drastically in comparison to last year. Don't blame the institute for this."
Speaking about another student, who was admitted for treatment with dengue symptoms, Singh said, "Gaurav was in the general ward, but his blood tests have not confirmed dengue. He is being treated for typhoid.”
According to state health authorities, Delhi has reported 86 cases of dengue this year, but they said the situation was under control. “We have received reports of 86 cases this year, but 23 of them are visitors to Delhi from neighbouring states. The number of cases are less this year as compared to last year, when a total of 476 cases were reported,” NK Yadav, chief municipal health officer of Delhi, said.
This year, around 3,500 health officials are monitoring mosquito-breeding in the capital city. So far, they have sent notices to 61,421 houses and fined some 13,213 households for breeding mosquitoes.
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