Govt hospitals in Sindh to get kits to diagnose chikungunya
Chikungunya illness is caused by a punch of a specific mosquito. PHOTO: REUTERS
KARACHI: For a initial time given a conflict of chikungunya 6 months ago, a Sindh health dialect has motionless to sequence 20,000 fast evidence kits to diagnose a disease.
The preference has been taken months after a conflict of a illness in Malir final year, that has influenced thousands of residents in Malir, Keamari, Bin Qasim, Orangi, Lyari and a coastal belt of Karachi. The cost of a singular pack is between Rs300 and Rs400 and it requires usually a singular dump of blood to exam a studious for chikungunya, according to Prevention and Control Programme of Dengue Programme Manager Dr Maqsood Solangi.
The evidence kits for chikungunya will be supposing to a hospitals by a Prevention and Control Programme of Dengue. According to Dr Solangi, who is a focal chairman for chikungunya in Sindh, a kits will be accessible in all a supervision hospitals by a subsequent week for early and scold diagnosis of a disease. Although a illness requires symptomatic treatment, this will assistance keep a record of chikungunya-affected patients, he said.
Chikungunya engulfs coastal belt of Karachi
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Dr Solangi pronounced that from a entrance week, diagnosis of chikungunya will be carried out in supervision hospitals situated in all a districts of Karachi. However, he said, given they don’t have kits to diagnose chikungunya, they have been destined to set adult a medical stay to bar other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue.
Meanwhile, a blood screening stay has been set adult to diagnose malaria and dengue in chikungunya-hit areas of Karachi by a programme. These camps have been set adult in Sindh Government Hospital Saudabad Malir and Sindh Government Hospital Ibrahim Hyderi. The blood screening camps screened patients on Tuesday for dengue and malaria.
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