Gurgaon: Haryana on Sunday reported three deaths of dengue fever from Fatehabad, Hisar and Noah, took the victim this season to four, the highest since 2015 when the mosquito disease claims 13 lives.
The state has seen the death of his first-blooded fever this time in Panchkula on October 28.
From 2016 to this year, no bloody death reported.
At 8,819, the official dengue count in Haryana was also at a height of five years, because of the Monsun Long.
With the rain continuing until the end of the year, health officials have warned that the number of cases can increase.
Tally is much higher than 4,550 cases reported in 2017, which saw most cases in recent years.
In 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020, Caseload 2,494, 1,936, 1,207 and 1,377, respectively.
The district with the highest number of cases has been marked ‘most affected’.
It includes fatehabad (916), Panchkula (792), Aperar (755), SANSA (718), Sonīpat (683), Kaital (675) and Ambala (558).
Apart from these seven districts, Jind has 411 cases, followed by Noah (409), Charchhi Dadri (369), Rohtak (293), Gurgaon (283), Bhiwani (273), Rewari (260), Jhajjar (260), Jhajjar (260), Jhajjar (242), Yamunanagar (234), Panipat (181), Kurukshetra (162), Mahendergarh (153), Karnal (172) and Palwal (43).
Of the total 8,819 cases, 5,703 were reported by government hospitals and 3,116 by private facilities.
Due to an increase in cases, 85 new dedicated environments for dengue fever was established in all 22 districts on Sunday following the direction of the Haryana Health Department.
A total of 658 beds were added by a government hospital.
Usha Gupta, Director (Health), Haryana, said, “All districts are being held to recognize dengue fever patients with the earliest low platelet counts in hospitals to prevent death from disease.
The hospital is also under direction to increase the capacity of the bed for patients Dengue fever.
“Aedes aegypti, mosquitoes that cause dengue, usually breed with stagnant water in containers such as desert coolers, overhead tanks, plastic bags, bottles, cups that are thrown out on garbage, lip items on the roof, flower pots and birdbath.
During the rainy season, the mosquito breeding site must be identified and removed.
According to the Ministry of Health, at least 420 checkers of domestic breeding work in each district, and 1,410 operates hands and 35 fogging machines installed by vehicles are currently being used.
The indoor remaining spray is also used in 57 high-risk areas where high malaria incidents in the past three years.
Meanwhile, Dr.
Virender Yadav, Chief Medical Officer, Gurgaon, said, “The case of dengue fever was declining.
We worked to ensure that all patients were treated earliest.” Gurgaon reported the first case of the season on August 24, with five positive tests.
The city reported 22 cases of dengue fever in 2019 and 51 cases of dengue fever in 2020.
Haryana reported 3 other dengue deaths
