CUTTACK: The panic triggered by the Dengue outbreak in the State is taking its toll on SCB Medical College and Hospital here. People are flocking to the premier health institution in large numbers not only from Angul district but the neighbouring Dhenkanal, Jagatsinghpur and also Cuttack district, posing problems for the doctors and hospital administration in managing the inflow.People gripped with the fear of having contracted the virus are heading straight to SCB Medical at the slightest instance of fever without even reporting at the local hospitals. The out-patient department of Medicine has been flooded with people suffering from fever and demanding blood tests. More than 30 persons are reporting at the OPD daily, most of them from the neighbouring districts. The confirmation of one dengue patient in Cuttack city has multiplied the worries of the hospital authorities as the number of febrile patients increased manifold on Thursday, sources said.The hospital confirmed around 40 cases of the 51 samples sent to it. While the majority have been from Angul district, one Rajkishore Pradhan of Ledura Bhagabanpur under Nischintkoili block of Cuttack district tested positive on Wednesday. The fact that he was working at Gandarpur in Cuttack has fuelled anxiety over its spread to the millennium city. Two other persons from Cuttack district also reportedly tested positive on Thursday.“We are facing difficulties in managing the people coming in with suspicion of having dengue. Majority of the people are testing negative but we have to admit them till the reports are obtained,” said superintendent Prof DN Moharana.Meanwhile, the district administration and the Cuttack Municipal Corporation on Thursday reviewed the measures initiated for prevention as well as awareness generation among the people. The meeting attended by Municipal Commissioner RN Nanda, Sub-Collector JP Das, amicus curie PR Das, the superintendents of the SCB Medical and Sishu Bhawan, the CDMO and other health officials decided to accelerate the cleaning and sanitation measures across the city. Fogging and indoor residual spray operations would be intensified with every household touched while all the water bodies and vulnerable areas would be treated with larvicides. Special squads have been formed at the ward-level to monitor and undertake the operations. Bush cutting work would be completed in seven days.Control rooms to handle inflow of patients, counselling and educating the people have been set up in the hospitals as well as the CMC, Collectorate and CDMO office. Help desks have also been established at the Cuttack railway station and Badambadi bus stand, Sub-Collector JP Das said.
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