Hanoi sees six dengue fever fatalities

Spray chemical to kill mosquito larva (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 5,000 additional cases of dengue fever have been
detected in Hanoi within the last two weeks, including six fatal ones.

This raises the total number of people contracting in the capital
to more than 13,200 since early this year.

The sixth
patient, who reportedly died of dengue fever on August 9 night at the National
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, was a 56-year-old woman from Thanh Xuan district.
She was hospitalised five days earlier with cardiac arrest and multi-organ
failure.

The five
other fatalities were from the capital’s Hoang Mai, Dong Da, Ba Dinh and Ha
Dong districts. Data from the city’s Centre for Preventive Medicine show that
90 percent of dengue patients live in the districts of Hoang Mai, Dong Da,
Thanh Xuan, Ha Dong, Cau Giay, Hai Ba Trung, Thanh Tri, Thanh Oai, Thuong Tin,
and Hoai Duc.

Dengue
fever generally mimics flu and goes away within a week, but some cases
can be more serious and require hospitalisation.

The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases on
August 9 had to use its meeting room to set up 20 beds for patients. That
morning, 500 people arrived at the hospital for dengue-fever examinations.

The
hospital has a hotline number – 0969241616 – to receive questions related to
dengue fever.

The Ministry of Health reports that over 82,000 people have contracted dengue
fever around the country this year, with 23 fatalities.-VNA