Bhopal, Sep 8 (Inditop.com) Madhya Pradesh recorded its ninth dengue death in a month after a 19-year-old girl died here, an official said Tuesday.
Shweta Mishra was on the ventilator at a private hospital here for the last three days and died of dengue fever late Monday. According to hospital sources, Shweta was admitted to the hospital Sep 1 and her blood sample reports tested positive for dengue. She hailed from Mandideep in Raisen district.
“The enormous decrease in Shweta’s platelet count resulted in bleeding in internal organs and low blood pressure. Though she was kept on ventilator for three days, she could not be saved,” said a doctor who was treating her.
Last week a three-year-old died of dengue in Indore. Seven others died in the state in the past one month.
There have been 16 confirmed dengue cases in Bhopal in the recent past but health officials were optimistic of restricting the spread of the virus.
“The number of dengue cases here has touched 16. They have been confirmed through tests at the Gandhi Medical College. However, though dengue has spread in almost all parts of the city, what is positive is the change in spread of dengue pattern that has restricted the spread of the disease,” Bhopal District Malaria Officer Padmakar Tripathi said.
“Normally, it is presumed that dengue that hits a colony or area affects 50-100 families in a row but this time it is not so. It is just hitting one or two persons at a particular place,” he said.
Meanwhile, precautionary activities in Raisen district have been intensified.
“Rapid fever survey was being carried out in Mandideep and around 65 slides have been tested so far,” Raisen District Malaria officer A.K. Sharma said.
“All the samples tested negative. We have visited Shweta’s family and checked her family members also. Actually contamination in sewage lines is the biggest danger here and I have intimated the Municipal Corporation in this regard.”
The health department has sent directives to all private hospitals to send patients who have tested positive to the Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, for accurate testing.
“We have increased the area of spraying insecticides and if required we will hire private medicos. Also, a control room would be established for dengue and malaria from today onwards,” Madhya Pradesh Health Department Director Anil Sharma said.
