Kolkata: The number of Covid revenues has not seen a significant bursts in Kolkata so far but the sustainable flow of dengue fever patients for the past two weeks has left the city hospital and doctors in Tenterhooks.
In fact, the number of dengue fever patients in some hospitals is now the same as covid patients or more than marginal.
While the case of severe fever is less than the Covid case in the hospital along bypass Em, their number is slightly higher at the South Kolkata Hospital.
“We have seen a surge in case of dengue fever in the past week.
At present, we have 24 dengue fever patients in our hospital.
The majority of them are residents of the area within 5 km of our hospital.
While Covid seems to be controlled, the number of dengue fever is Causes of worries, “said Simmardeep Gill, CEO, CK Biral Hospitals CMRI.
Against 24 dengue fever patients, CMRI had 22 covid patients on Saturday.
Most of the hospitals said they did not have so many dengue fever receipts last year.
“Unlike last year, Dengue created ripples this year.
At present, we have 16 dengue fever patients with 15 Covid cases.
Most of these patients come from areas such as Ballygunge and Area side by side,” said Pradip Tondon, CEO, Belle Vue Clinic .
Last year, as dominated by Covid, the city did not see that many other cases of infection or tropical diseases, including dengue and malaria fever.
This year, the death of the first bloody fever was reported on September 22, when a 19-year-old boy gave up on a disease transmitted through a vector in a private hospital.
“About 7% of our accepted patients have dengue fever and 3% have malaria.
Both have seen bursts in the last ten days,” said Rupali Basu, Managing Director & CEO of the Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital.
“We have a total of 18 Covid patients who claim to be 12% of all cases received.
All fever patients accounted for 22% or patients received and bleeding, malaria or covid,” Basu added.
On Saturday, three units of Amri together have 32 dengue and 8 malaria patients, half of this in the Salt Lake unit.
Three hospital units currently have 53 covid patients, including 23 in the ICU.
Narayan Memorial Hospital Behala has three dengue patients including one in the ICU against 5 covid patients.
“The case of dengue and malaria fever began to rise about one and a half months ago.
The patient’s inflows are still active and on certain days we have around 10 patients received with dengue or malaria,” said Subhasish Datta, General Manager operation at Ruby Hospital.
Health officials said the strengthening of dengue / malaria supervision by Kolkata Municipal Corporation could be a reason for more detection.
However, some hospitals such as Peerless and RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS), however, have some dengue cases.
“Somehow, we only got some cases of dengue fever this year too.
But we lost two patients who came looking for treatment when his condition was critical,” said CEO Sudipta Mitra Hospital Leeran.