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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Pigs, ponds and platelets: A UP hospital’s tumultuous ride through the dengue outbreak -Ayush Tiwari

Pigs, ponds and platelets: A UP hospital’s tumultuous ride through the dengue outbreak -Ayush Tiwari

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published Published on Sep 3, 2021   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2021

-Newslaundry.com

Grimy, inefficient and chaotic, Firozabad’s Government Medical College is struggling to manage the dengue outbreak that has killed more than 50.

Dr Sangeeta Aneja sits in one corner of the hall of the Government Medical College in Firozabad, which is at the heart of the efforts to control the dengue outbreak in the district. Every minute, a family member meekly walks up to her with the results of a blood test. “Yes, 1 lakh 50 thousand seems good,” she then declares, ticking off the patient’s platelet count with a blue pen. “You should discharge your child.”

On Wednesday evening, 270 patients were admitted at the hospital. Since August 24, over 50 have succumbed to the disease in Firozabad, most of them children.

First described as a “mystery illness”, the upsurge turned out to be a dengue outbreak after 46 of the 49 samples sent to the King George's Medical University in Lucknow tested positive for the Aedes virus.

Aneja, the dean of the medical college, has been trying to deploy the meagre resources at her command to rein in the infection. Last week, she had only three paediatricians to treat the sick. Two days ago, another 15 arrived from across Uttar Pradesh and four more are on the way.

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Newslaundry.com, 3 September, 2021, https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/09/03/pigs-ponds-and-platelets-a-up-hospitals-tumultuous-ride-through-the-dengue-outbreak?fbclid=IwAR0lVfuscimsHmpohevooDp2SlfJSMMg7wHieVhUrRNw93ryWZw1apsoqso


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