Four doctors agreement chickenpox during Mayo Hospital
Patient has blood drawn during a hospital. PHOTO: REUTERS
LAHORE: Chickenpox might be a common illness among children, yet a affects can terribly impact adults as well.
At slightest 4 doctors of a Mayo Hospital engaged a illness while treating patients, The Express Tribune has learnt.
Dr Tooba Mehmood, who is pang from a disease, pronounced patients are visiting a sanatorium and even doctors have engaged a disease. “At slightest 4 of us have already depressed chase to a illness, while a supervision is incompetent to give protecting rigging to doctors,” she said.
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“People who have never had chickenpox should be clever and wear a facade daily as a precautionary measure,” she advised.
Dr Abid Mehmood, a United Kingdom-based open health specialist, pronounced wearing an typical facade does not forestall a bearing to a varicella pathogen and doctors need to wear a N95 variety.
Chickenpox can be spreading and symptoms how themselves dual or 3 days later. “Varicella can be a critical infection during pregnancy,” he added.
Dr Qazi Mumtaz, a comparison paediatrician, pronounced it is a rarely foul illness and can widespread by saliva, phlegm or hit with a blisters of a putrescent person. “The pathogen can also be transmitted by a atmosphere by coughing or sneezing.” People who have never suffered or been vaccinated can simply agreement it, he said. The alloy combined that yet it is a common illness among children, adults can be terribly affected. “The illness can lead to genocide due to co-morbidity.”
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The alloy stressed that patients with symptoms of high fever, rashes on a body, queasiness and rigidity in a neck should immediately be referred to a sanatorium for correct treatment.
According to a health department, during slightest 19 deaths were reported in opposite districts of a province. Around 1,591 cases of chickenpox have been reported in Punjab, of that 821 were from Faisalabad district alone. In Lahore, 86 cases were reported, while there were 6 in Chiniot, 11 in Nankana Sahib, 189 in Toba Tek Singh and 185 in Sahiwal. In Gujaranwala and Multan, one box was reported from any city.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 8th, 2017.
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