New Delhi: With 2,700 domestic breeding checkers (DBCs) on strike, the city has been rendered doubly vulnerable to the dengue demon. Add to this the sporadic rain, which has only made matters worse. DBCs say that they have not been paid their salaries for months now. Moreover, they have demanded that they be given permanent employment. On Monday, the issue of rising dengue cases as also the DBC strike figured in the House meeting also.

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Lucknow: Sporadic cases of dengue from Uttar Pradesh were admitted to the paediatric ward of the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University on Sunday. Two patients, namely Mahak (10) and Prassana (10), from Sidharth Nagar, Suresh (9) was brought to the hospital from Ramnagar district, while Barkha (9) and Shivam (9) were referred to CSMMU from private nursing homes in their native districts of Unnao and Barabanki respectively.

New Delhi: The MCD fears the cases of dengue will be rising to a great extent in the city in the coming days due to the sporadic rain.
Its field staff was at work this weekend for the first time this season. It might be working other weekends also this month if the number of cases reported over the week rise drastically. Till Saturday, 136 dengue cases had been reported with one death taking place in the Delhi Cantonment area. Significantly, only 20 cases of dengue had been reported in the city for the same period last year.

Thimphu referral hospital detected the first case of dengue fever in the capital in a 63-year-old woman.
The woman was admitted to hospital on September 2 with fever and pain in the limbs. According to health officials, patient was examined twice to confirm whether she had dengue.

Jalandhar, Septemnber 05 First case of dengue was reported in Jalandhar on Thursday. Kulwinder Singh of Bhargo Camp was admitted to Civil Hospital after his tests reported positive for dengue. However, he was kept under observation in isolation. Civil Surgeon Dr SS Walia, confirming it to be a case of dengue, appealed to the residents to wear full-sleeve clothes and avoid accumulation of water in and around their houses.

Emergency centres have been set up at the Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas, Taluka hospitals, and five Basic health Units of the district to deal with dengue fever, said EDO Health Dr Khadim Hussain Lakhair in a handout.

He said awareness campaign had also been launched through handbills and lady health workers.

He said a dengue fever patient, Mukesh s/o Bhalyo, resident of village Suleiman Rajar, near 78 Mori, was brought to the Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas who later was shifted to Liaquat Medical University Hospital Hyderabad for further treatment.

The unabated onslaught of dengue has made boom town Gurgaon the worst affected district in the national capital region (NCR), as the number of cases here has increased to 374. Nearly 500 cases have tested positive in NCR.

Confirming this, Gurgaon malaria officer Krishan Kumar said that of the total patients who tested positive, 12 were from outside the district.

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Two dengue patients have died and 40 of them are battling the disease at different hospitals, taking the number of dengue cases in the district this season to 348.

Giving these details, Gurgaon civil surgeon Dr S.S. Dalal said the district administration and health authorities are making all efforts to control the spread of the disease.

Fogging has been done in the houses of all the positive cases and many houses in the neighbourhood have also been covered under the operation as a preventive measure, he said.

NEW DELHI,Sept. 1: Despite the Municipal Corporation of Delhi