There has been a steady drop in the admission of people with viral fever in the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital, said P. Kanagaraj, Dean of the hospital.
The new cases and admission of people affected by viral fever, which stood at 150 a day till recently, have come down to 88 on Tuesday. This downward trend is being witnessed for the past few days, Dr. Kanagaraj told presspersons here on Tuesday.
The in-patient strength has also come down at the hospital.
On some occasions, maximum of 560 in-patients were reported in the special wards set up for treating people affected by dengue and other viral fevers in the hospital. The strength of in-patients has come down to 411 on Tuesday.
At present, only 38 people, including 11 children, with dengue positive signs were undergoing treatment at the hospital, he said.
Referring to the steps taken by the hospital management to treat people with symptoms of dengue and viral fever, Dr. Kanagaraj said since the out-break of dengue in the district, the bed strength at the hospital was increased from 270 to 741.
The bed strength of the aid-conditioned exclusive paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) set up under the Reproductive and Child Health Programme was also increased to 37.
All resources available with the hospital management were pressed into the service. The government also posted many specialists and postgraduate students from other parts of the State and this enabled in offering proper treatment to the affected people in a big way.
Dr. Kanagaraj said that the medical college hospital recently received a grant of ₹ 50 lakh from National Health Mission. This was used for infrastructure development. About ₹ 10 lakh was spent for the purchase of modern equipment, he said.
The State Government too has recently sanctioned various modern equipment to the hospital at an outlay of ₹ 1.25 crore. The list included 5 ventilators, 15 multi-para monitor, one colour Doppler scan, one ultra sound scan and a mobile X-ray.
Special team to treat burn cases
Dr. Kanagaraj said that a special three-member team has been formed to treat people who suffer burns due to the firing of fire crackers during the Deepavali festival days. The team comprising of doctors Kannan, M. K. Rajendran and Gopal would treat the affected people at the special burns ward functioning at the super-speciality block round the clock for a week.