The resident doctors are from medicine, chest medicine, anaesthesia and paediatric medicine departments of the hospital.
As India's neighbour Sri Lanka celebrates malaria-free status, closer home, dengue has returned to haunt KEM hospital with at least 10 resident doctors being treated for the infection in the last one week.
While all of them are stable, they say the administration is doing little to resolve the issue. "Dengue has been a problem every year. There has been fumigation in our hostels, but the problem persists. Four of the 10 are women and have gone home to recover," said a third-year resident doctor.
The resident doctors are from medicine, chest medicine, anaesthesia and paediatric medicine departments of the hospital.
The doctor added that two resident doctors from the medicine department also contracted leptospirosis. "Both are in the second year. One of them is admitted and the other has gone home. There are several who are down with undiagnosed fever," said the doctor.
BMC health report dated August 21 stated there have been 994 suspected cases of dengue in the month. It added that there have been 53 confirmed leptospirosis cases reported in BMC-run hospitals. "The women's medicine ward has been leaking during heavy rains. We never thought that resident doctors would get leptospirosis infection too," said another resident doctor.
Two years back, KEM hospital was a hotspot for dengue with a 23-year-old resident doctor succumbing to it.
Hospital authorities said there has been massive screening and no mosquito breeding spots have been spotted so far.
Dengue virus breeding spots are found in stagnant fresh water. The disease is transmitted by the bite of an aedes mosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses. The dengue fever is a febrile illness that affects infants, young children and adults, and occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Symptoms appear three to 14 days after the bite.
Symptoms range from a mild fever to an incapacitating high fever, with severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and rashes. There are no specific antiviral medicines for dengue. It is important to maintain hydration.
Dengue haemorrhagic fever (fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding) is a potentially lethal complication, which mainly affects children. Early clinical diagnosis and careful clinical management by experienced physicians and nurses increase patients' survival chances.
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