Saturday, 09 September 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cumulative number of dengue patients in the provisional State capital increased to 611 on Friday with the Health department reporting 23 new patients of the disease.
Death of one patient of the disease was reported by the authorities in Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on the day. A total of 12 deaths from the disease have occured in the district so far.
The department collected 1,374 samples of the patients for the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test on the day. A total of 128 of the disease are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of the district. As per the officials the 588 patients have recovered from the disease while one patient has died from the disease.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito. The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decreases drastically which may prove fatal for the patient.
