New Delhi: In the midst of the Covid-19 case in Delhi-NCR, a surge in a virus case was reported among children in various Noida hospitals.
More than 50 percent of cases in the patient department (OPD) are virus fever in children.
The number of children affected by viral fever also raised in hospitals in the national capital.
“50-55 percent of patients complain about fever.
Our institution has seen 5-7 dengue cases per day in OPD.
Seasonal fever that occurs every year,” said Dr.
Jyotsna Madan, director of acting, PGI child, Noida.
“We are in the midst of a viral fever outbreak.
We get many cases of viral fever in children.
Nearly 25 percent of our OPD consists of children who come with fever usually with symptoms such as cold, coughing and fever.
There is a simple virus And in some cases the H3N2 which is the form of swine flu that we also get, “said Dr.
Nitin Verma, Director, General Pediatric, Rainbow Madhukar’s Child Hospital.
According to Dr.
(Brig) Rakesh Gupta, Director of GIMS, Noida, “the total number of children with virus fever received in hospitals was six and one bloody case treated at the hospital.” “We get nearly 30 patients every day in OPD with complaints of virus fever,” he added.
However, Typhus scrub, mysterious fever at Uttar Pradesh, has claimed many lives so far, 40 of them are children, according to government data.
Recently the central team visited the Firozabad district and observed that the majority of cases were caused by dengue fever, while some were due to typhus and leptospirosis scrubs.
The vector index is found high with the home index and container index, both above 50 percent.
NCDC has spent two EIS officers in this district for the next 14 days and they will help the district in strengthening the outbreak response.
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