By Dulakshi Wakista
The Health Ministry has formed 50 High Dependency Units (HDU) for care of dengue patients. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said yesterday that the dengue epidemic was on the rise again with the occasional showers experienced in most parts of the country.
The HDU’s of the 50 hospitals had been completed and they were equipped with five to ten beds each, he said. Each HDU had cost the Health Ministry over seven million rupees, he said.
The spokesman said that Additional Health Secretary Dr. Palitha Mahipala had discussed the development of hospital facilities, patient management, vector control and Dengue awareness programmes with health officials of the Eastern Province in order to sort out the dengue epidemic issues.
Recent rains experienced in the North and East could increase the number of dengue cases in the two provinces, he said.
An awareness program had been initiated to eradicate dengue in ten districts. The District Dengue Control Units had also been given ten three-wheelers. 22,244 suspect dengue cases had been identified from January till the third week of November. 151 deaths had been reported within the same period. A majority of dengue cases had been reported in the month of July, while 57.5 percent of them were from the Western Province, he added.
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