With heavy rains lashing the city, health will be on the top of the BMC agenda in the coming week, admitted Dr Jayraj Thanekar, civic executive health officer.
Five more deaths in the past 24 hours take death toll to 91
With heavy rains lashing the city, health will be on the top of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) agenda in the coming week, admitted Dr Jayraj Thanekar, civic executive health officer. “We are concerned a bit about leptospirosis and dengue. Cases of the two diseases might increase from August 13 onwards,” said Dr Thanekar.
“There was a significant rise in the number of monsoon-related ailments in the city, about 10-14 days after torrential rains on June 30, as the incubation period for diseases like leptospirosis is a fortnight. The same pattern might be repeated this month as well,” he explained.
Although this year, the number of admissions to the civic hospitals is high, there were 80 deaths reported in July this year, as opposed to 89 deaths reported in July 2006, he pointed out. The BMC has 25 health posts in various areas of the city, which are prepared to tackle the fresh wave of patients that the current spell of rains might bring, said Dr Thanekar.
Meanwhile, five more deaths were reported in the city in the past 24 hours, taking the toll of monsoon-related deaths since the beginning of the monsoon to 91. Three of the patients succumbed to fever at Sion Hospital — a 46-year-old male patient from Khar, a 35-year-old female patient from Dharavi and a 19-year-old male patient from Powai, said Dr Neera Kewalramani, deputy executive health officer, BMC. Malaria claimed a 22-year-old male victim from Dadar, who died at Kasturba Hospital on Thursday. A 26-year-old male patient died due to malaria in a private hospital.
Meanwhile, admissions to the city’s hospitals due to monsoon-related ailments continued to rise. Civic hospitals saw 209 admissions due to fever, 57 cases of gastroenteritis, five cases of leptospirosis, a case of dengue and 50 cases of malaria, said Kewalramani.
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