2024-07-17 04:11:27
Ahmedabad: The threat of the suspected Chandipura virus is increasing in Gujarat. Two more children died in the state on Tuesday. With this, the number of deaths due to this suspected virus in the state has reached eight. Gujarat Health Minister Rishikesh Patel informed that two more children died on Tuesday due to suspected Chandipura virus in the state, taking the death toll due to the virus in the state to eight. Patel told reporters in the state capital Gandhinagar that the number of people infected with the virus has reached 14, out of which eight people have died.
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Cases have been found in six districts
Health Minister Rishikesh Patel said cases were reported from Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Mahisagar, Kheda, Mehsana and Rajkot districts. Patel said three patients from neighbouring states (two from Rajasthan and one from Madhya Pradesh) were also being treated in hospitals in Gujarat. He said one of the two patients from Rajasthan had died. Patel said the state health department has closely monitored the affected districts and special advisories have been issued to community and primary health centres and sub-district hospitals as well as medical colleges to treat suspected cases with certain symptoms as Chandipura virus cases.
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Delay in treatment is dangerous
Health Minister Rishikesh Patel said that the mortality rate of this disease is very high and if treatment is delayed, it is difficult for the patient to survive. He said that as a precaution, more than 44,000 people have been examined in 8,600 houses of 26 residential areas. The minister said that the people who have died so far during treatment in hospitals include two from Sabarkantha district, three from Aravalli, one each from Mahisagar and Rajkot districts and one from Rajasthan.