R B Jagadish
Daijiworld Media Network – Karkala (EP)
Karkala, Jun 15: KMC hospital has assigned additional doctors in taluk government hospital to treat dengue patients. Ten patients suffering from fever were admitted in hospital on Tuesday, June 15 and they have been tested positive for dengue.
The infected patients are asked to use mosquito nets to prevent spread of the epidemic.
New doctors arriving
Mala residents Rathna Shetty, Manjula, Usha, Mutharaj, Eadu residents Santhosh, Sridhar Mogera and Kervase resident Sathish are the ones among admitted. The remaining patients have been discharged.
MLA V Sunil Kumar and health officials visited Mala village on Tuesday, June 14 and gathered necessary information from the residents. The spread of dengue in April before the onset of monsoon has been confirmed.
Aedis mosquito breeds from rubber cultivation. Its eggs make the mosquitoes multiply. The decrease in rain has been a boon for the mosquitoes.
MLA Sunil Kumar initiated this move and requested KMC to send additional doctors Dr Vibha and Dr Sravan to the taluk government hospital. Dr Ashwin led staff has been administering necessary medicine to patients suffering from fever in Mala village panchayat limits.
It is said that KMC will send more doctors depending on the number of patients.