North Delhi Municipal Corporation has opened 52 additional fever-testing clinics in an effort to provide more diagnosis and treatment facilities.
They will function from 8 am to 2 pm every day and from 15 polyclinics, 26 dispensaries and 11 maternity homes.
These clinics have been provided with adequate stock of medicines and other supplies for this purpose, a statement by NDMC said today.
They have also been directed to daily report the number of fever cases and the number of suspected dengue cases refereed to hospitals to the Director Hospital Administration and Municipal Health Officer at headquarters.
Additional Commissioner (Health) Mayank Sharma has also written a letter to President, Delhi Medical Association, urging it to communicate all medical practitioners through their channel to follow standard clinical protocol on diagnosis and treatment of dengue cases, appropriate use of platelets and other blood products and to utilise the government health infrastructure free treatment for poor patients.
