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BHUBANESWAR: Even as hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have reported at the very least 5 dengue-related fatalities within the final month, official information launched by the division maintained not a single demise has taken place to this point this 12 months.
As per information launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Odisha is amongst six excessive dengue-burden states which have been fuelling the case tally this season. While Kerala has recorded the utmost 6,608 circumstances, adopted by 4,805 in Karnataka, 3,309 in Tamil Nadu, 3,164 in Maharashtra and a couple of,718 in Andhra Pradesh until July, Odisha has reported 2,426 circumstances until August 20. Kerala has additionally introduced the very best variety of 31 deaths.
Surprisingly, not a single demise has been declared formally in Odisha and the reason for demise within the circumstances has been attributed to another comorbid circumstances by the Health division.
The state has been refuting dengue deaths because the first fatality that occurred in a company hospital in Bhubaneswar on July 22. Although the affected person, a nine-year-old woman from the Jagamara space within the state capital, had examined constructive for dengue and was admitted to the ICU and placed on a ventilator, the extra district public well being officer (vector-borne illness) of Khurda attributed the reason for her demise to encephalitis or septicaemia following an investigation. The authorities didn’t settle for it as a case of dengue because the take a look at was carried out in a personal lab with a fast equipment and the platelet rely was 1.45 lakh per CuMm.
In one other curious case at Capital Hospital the place a girl examined constructive for dengue post-delivery and succumbed throughout remedy on July 31, well being officers claimed she died of postpartum problems.
“The woman had tested dengue negative before delivery. She, however, tested positive for dengue on July 27 during her stay in the hospital. The patient died while undergoing treatment,” stated an official of Capital Hospital.
Director of public well being Dr Niranjan Mishra stated as malaria, dengue and Japanese encephalitis are notifiable illnesses, deaths because of the illnesses could be introduced solely after epidemiological investigations for which a district-level committee headed by the chief district medical and public well being officer has been constituted. “We have received information about five deaths so far and the cause of death in none of them was found to be dengue,” he stated and urged folks to not panic and get admitted except there’s a drastic fall in platelet rely.
Data mismatch
Odisha amongst top-6 excessive dengue burden states in nation
2,246 circumstances as on August 20,2023
Government says deaths not as a consequence of dengue
5 deaths reported at hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack
BHUBANESWAR: Even as hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have reported at the very least 5 dengue-related fatalities within the final month, official information launched by the division maintained not a single demise has taken place to this point this 12 months.
As per information launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Odisha is amongst six excessive dengue-burden states which have been fuelling the case tally this season. While Kerala has recorded the utmost 6,608 circumstances, adopted by 4,805 in Karnataka, 3,309 in Tamil Nadu, 3,164 in Maharashtra and a couple of,718 in Andhra Pradesh until July, Odisha has reported 2,426 circumstances until August 20. Kerala has additionally introduced the very best variety of 31 deaths.
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The state has been refuting dengue deaths because the first fatality that occurred in a company hospital in Bhubaneswar on July 22. Although the affected person, a nine-year-old woman from the Jagamara space within the state capital, had examined constructive for dengue and was admitted to the ICU and placed on a ventilator, the extra district public well being officer (vector-borne illness) of Khurda attributed the reason for her demise to encephalitis or septicaemia following an investigation. The authorities didn’t settle for it as a case of dengue because the take a look at was carried out in a personal lab with a fast equipment and the platelet rely was 1.45 lakh per CuMm.
In one other curious case at Capital Hospital the place a girl examined constructive for dengue post-delivery and succumbed throughout remedy on July 31, well being officers claimed she died of postpartum problems.
“The woman had tested dengue negative before delivery. She, however, tested positive for dengue on July 27 during her stay in the hospital. The patient died while undergoing treatment,” stated an official of Capital Hospital.
Director of public well being Dr Niranjan Mishra stated as malaria, dengue and Japanese encephalitis are notifiable illnesses, deaths because of the illnesses could be introduced solely after epidemiological investigations for which a district-level committee headed by the chief district medical and public well being officer has been constituted. “We have received information about five deaths so far and the cause of death in none of them was found to be dengue,” he stated and urged folks to not panic and get admitted except there’s a drastic fall in platelet rely.
Data mismatch
Odisha amongst top-6 excessive dengue burden states in nation
2,246 circumstances as on August 20,2023
Government says deaths not as a consequence of dengue
5 deaths reported at hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack
