As the incident of deaths due to suspected dengue rise in the city, the civic body has swung into action.
Starting next week, the insecticide department will start prosecuting those residential colonies that have not taken steps to omit breeding sites in their homes and colonies. “We have found dengue breeding in the building of two Goregoan residents, who died of dengue. Also Shastri Nagar, which had reported of a few cases, had around 21 breeding sites in the building premises and homes of the residents,” said Rajan Naringrekar, chief insecticide officer, BMC.
Insecticide officer found breeding of aedes mosquitoes (which aids in dengue transmission) at Anup Balkrishna’s neighbour’s house. Balkrishna was the boy who died of dengue on Wednesday. Five breeding spots were also identified in Mitha Nagar, Goregoan where Chaya Naik (47), who died of dengue,
lived.
Dr Pratit Samdani, physician, Bhatia Hospital, said, “Five to six new cases of dengue come in every day. I have admitted around 10-15 dengue positive patients.”
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Another suspected dengue death reported in malad
Age Correspondent
Mumbai, Sept. 6
The dengue death toll is rising in the city. On Friday, Devendra Singh, a 42-year-old from Malwani in Malad (west) is said to have died of dengue.
However, the civic body did not have any confirmation about any of the deaths being a dengue death. “He developed high fever, headache and exhaustion. We took him to Bhagwati Hospital and after tests, learnt that he had dengue, but the doctors told us to go to another hospital,” said Singh’s friend Anand Mishra.
Singh was then moved to a private hospital, but his vital parameters kept falling and he passed away on Friday morning.
With Singh’s death, the dengue death toll in the city has gone up to five, though suspected. “We have not been intimated by any hospital, hence, we cannot include him in the dengue death toll,” said epidemiologist, Dr Mangla Gomare.