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Mumbai: The dengue death no one knew about

41-year-old Mulund resident died on Nov 12, BMC says it got to know only on Monday

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There have been two and not one dengue death in the city in the past week. Both victims lived in Mulund. The deaths have taken the city's toll to 15 since July.

While K Radhakrishnan, 52, died on November 15, Purnima Iyer, 41, another Mulund (West) resident, died on November 12. Coincidentally, both were admitted in the same nursing home and shifted toanother hospital after testing positive for dengue. Purnima died of dengue complications.

Though Platinum Hospital claims that it had informed BMC of Purnima's death on the same day, the civic body claims it got the report only on Monday.

PS Nagrajan, Purnima's brother-in-law said, “K Radhakrishnan and Purnima were admitted to same nursing home, Saarthi. We didn't delay her hospital admission. She was admitted the day she got fever. It was only when her condition started deteriorating and she tested positive for dengue that we shifted her to Platinum Hospital. Radhakrishnan was shifted to Fortis Hospital.”

Nagrajan further claimed that in Purnima's housing society, at least 10-15 dengue positive patients wereadmitted in hospitals. “BMC visited the society two days back and found at least 4-5 Aedes Aegyptus mosquito breeding spots in the colony,” said Nagrajan. Like Radhakrishnan, Purnima too had multiple organ failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a complication associated with dengueinfection. “She was transferred to our hospital on November 10. In her case, the ARDS hit her very quickly. She succumbed to dengue on November 12," said Dr Agarwal from Platinum Hospital.

In its Monday edition, dna had reported how KEM Hospital's latest study claiming there were 22 denguedeaths in the hospital alone in 2013 exposes that its own health department's claim of overall only 12 deaths in 2013 is questionable. “BMC is definitely trying to suppress the actual number of dengue deaths. They are only confirming the cases coming in newspapers. For example in Mulund, we have been regularly complaining to its ward office about rising dengue cases with data, but they have hardly followed it up,” said Sunil Gangwanii, ex-corporator in Mulund.

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