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- Worrying about 100 cases per day in government hospitals and around 200 cases in private hospitals
With the onset of monsoon in Surendranagar district, the epidemic is becoming uncontrollable. Cases of fever and viral diseases are increasing alarmingly. Especially children are becoming more victims of this disease. In which 100 cases are received daily in Surendranagar government hospital and around 200 cases in private hospitals, the feeling of concern has spread.
Children are now becoming victims of diseases
According to the information received in this regard, the monsoon has just started in Surendranagar. And there has been normal rain in the midst of blue weather. There, with the spread of filth everywhere, the disease is raising its head due to the increasing infestation of disease-causing insects like mosquitoes. Many children up to twelve years of age are falling prey to viral diseases like fever and whooping cough.
This epidemic worsened with the change of seasonAround 100 cases of children falling victim to fever and viral diseases are coming to the Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital in Surendranagar every day. While private children’s hospitals are known to receive approximately 200 cases per day. The epidemic is believed to have worsened with the change of season. A demand has been raised by the municipality to carry out a war-like cleaning campaign in the city, spraying pesticides and making arrangements to dispose of water where rainwater puddles are filled.
On the one hand, Corona cases are increasing at a slow pace. It is then that there is a sense of concern over the rise in cases of fever and viral, cough and phlegm-like illnesses among children. Pediatrician Dr. Bharat Mulia of Surendranagar said that children are falling prey to viral diseases like fever and cough-cough due to the cold in the current rainy-humid environment. Children with such symptoms should be given a nebulizer and should be kept away from market junk food. Also, parents should not insist on sending children to school with fever-cough cough symptoms.
Dirt behind the ward of patients admitted to the hospital!
About 40 patients are currently admitted and undergoing treatment at the Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital in Surendranagar. There have been complaints of unbearable filthiness at the rear of the maternity ward where patients are admitted. A mold has been created where the patients coming to the hospital to get rid of the disease get sicker due to the filth.
Influx of patients in OPDs of government hospitals
Epidemic has also raised its head amid rainy weather in Surendranagar district. 530 to 540 patients are being registered daily in the OPD of the city government hospital. It has 200 cold-fever patients. Apart from this, doctors are saying that there is a huge rush of patients coming to private hospitals. There has been a huge demand that the system should start the spraying of medicine along with the cleanliness drive. If the system does not wake up urgently, the possibility of an epidemic in the city and district cannot be ruled out.
Epidemics peaked with rainy weather
With the rainy weather in the district, the epidemic is on the rise, on the one hand, the cases of corona are increasing. On the other hand, diseases such as mosquito-borne and water-borne colds, fevers, and coughs have raised their heads. There is a problem of waterlogging of rainwater for days in many areas of the city, filth, piles of garbage, standing water in private plots etc. increase the possibility of disease outbreak.
On the other hand, due to viral infection, the epidemic is also likely to increase. Monsoon season is considered as epidemic season. 530 to 540 cases are coming daily in Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital of Surendranagar alone. About 200 of them are OPDs. In cases there are patients with cold, fever, viral infection. 70 O.P.D. The cases relate to the problem of pediatric diseases. At present 40 patients of various diseases have been admitted in this hospital.
