Fever pitch: Dengue, malaria & typhoid overtake rain in Hyderabad

Though the monsoon has been playing hide-and-seek over the city since its outset, the diseases it harbingers are spreading fast.
Most government-run hospitals in the city, along with the private facilities, have seen a spurt in monsoon-related diseases such as dengue, malaria and typhoid.

Osmania General Hospital (OGH) is seeing 2,700 new patients per day, which is way more than what the hospital received before the beginning of monsoon. At Fever hospital, 1,400 patients are visiting every day from the city as well as districts. Most patients have fever, body ache, respiratory and throat infections.
“Till now in July, we have got 221 patients with viral fever, of which two were diagnosed with dengue and one with Chikungunya. We treated 105 patients for diarrhoea, 49 for tonsillitis, 15 for jaundice and 94 for enteric fever,” said K Shankar, superintendent of Fever Hospital, adding that there were receiving about 1,000 to 1,400 patients daily. He said that before the start of monsoon, the figure stood at 600-800 patients per day.
Doctors at Osmania General Hospital (OGH), too, said that their out-patient department has seen a sudden rise in patients, complaining of symptoms of vector-borne and monsoon diseases. “On Wednesday, 2,582 patients were treated. On an average, the OPD is seeing about 2,700 new patients daily,” said B Nagendra, superintendent of OGH. He said that on an average they were getting about 5-7 dengue patients every month and cases of viral fever also have been on the rise.