With the sudden spurt in cases, residents of the colony have demanded that the municipal corporation pull up its act.
At least 11 people from a Mhada residential colony in Malwani, Malad (west) have contracted dengue over the last month. Of these, three are from one family, one of whom died on Wednesday.
With the sudden spurt in cases, residents of the colony have demanded that the municipal corporation pull up its act.
The deceased, Tariq Jafri, 32, his wife Shakila, 30 and their 4-year-old daughter baby Tasneema had been down with dengue for the last one week.
Doctors at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Andheri, where Jafri had been admitted said that he died due to ‘dengue shock syndrome’ on Wednesday. The syndrome, said doctors, can kill a person in just three days.
His daughter is in a critical condition in the hospital’s paediatric intensive care unit while his widow Shakila, 30, took discharge against medical advice on Wednesday to attend her husband’s funeral, said hospital sources.
The hospital’s chief executive officer, Dr Ram Narain, said that Jafri had been admitted to the intensive care in an extremely critical condition.
A neighbour of Tariq, Akhtar Khan, said that the Tariq died, two other people from the vicinity had been admitted to Siddartha hospital in Goregaon, which is run by the municipal corporation.
Nearly 35,000 people live in 6,000 ground-plus-one tenements constructed by MHADA in the locality. Local corporator Gulistan Shaikh said that more awareness of dengue was the need of the hour in the locality. “We also need to distribute the insecticide teme phos to residents to pre-empt the rise of dengue,” said Shaikh.
Dr Mangala Gomare, head of the BMC’s epidemiology department, said they were presently distributing the insecticide only in slum areas.
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