Govt Asks CGHS Centres To Extend Treatment To Non- Beneficiaries For Dengue.
New Delhi, Sep 28 (PTI) The
government today directed doctors at various CGHS centres to provide
consultation and primary out-patient services to all patients coming with
symptoms of dengue regardless of whether or not they were scheme beneficiaries.
The Union
Health Ministry said that the doctors stationed at Central Government Health
Scheme wellness centres in Delhi and NCR region should provide these services
irrespective of whether the patient is a CGHS beneficiary or not.
"All
doctors at various CGHS wellness centres in Delhi and NCR shall provide
consultation services and primary out- patient medical care to all citizens --
whether CGHS beneficiaries or not -- who may visit wellness centres with
symptoms of dengue, primarily high fever," the ministry said in a
statement here.
CGHS
wellness centres function between 7.30 AM and 2 PM on all working days.
The
Union ministry's order comes in the wake of two more deaths in the national
capital that have taken the dengue toll this season in Delhi to 30 even though
the official casualty figure is yet to be updated.
Nearly
1,700 fresh dengue cases have been reported in the city in the past week,
taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease to
5,471.
The
official death toll, updated till September 24, still stands at 17.
Last
year, the city had reported three deaths and recorded nearly 1,000 cases of the
dengue.
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