The people of Greater Hyderabad are being hospitalized on a large scale in the wake of the rising cases of dengue, malaria, typhoid and chickenpox.Due to the recent incessant rains, many people have been exposed to germs due to unpredictable changes in the weather.
In GHMC, children are especially prone to these fevers.One out of every five fever sufferers gets a positive dengue report.
With the lack of proper medical services in rural and urban health centres, all the victims in the suburbs are rushing to the teaching hospitals in the city for better treatment.As a result, Nallakunta Fever Hospital and Koti ENT Hospitals, including Osmania, Gandhi and Nilofar hospitals, are flooded with patients.
Due to inadequate beds in Osmania and Nilofar hospitals, patients are receiving treatement on the hospital floor.Currently, 1,200 people are being treated at the 1,000-bed Nilofar Hospital,
While the average daily OP at Osmania Hospital on normal days was 1,200, it is currently between 1,800 and 2,000.
While the average OP at the Fever Hospital on normal days was 350, it is now over a thousand.Nilofer Children’s Hospital has OP 900 on normal days, but now the number has crossed 1,500.The situation is similar at ENT Hospital.
