Dengue, chikungunya menace: Rajasthan, Haryana Cancel doctors leave
Jaipur: With the rise in the cases of viral fever, dengue , chikungunya, state governments are resorting to cancellation of leaves of medical practitioners in a desperate attempt to provide sufficient manpower resources in the hospitals.
The Rajasthan government has decided to cancel leave of doctors and banned their transfer for at least a month as cases of chikungunya, malaria, dengue and other viral diseases are on the rise.
"We do not want to take any chances as large number of patients are reporting at government-run hospitals with viral, dengue and Chikungunya and also scrub typhus like symptoms. Looking at this, the state government has decided to cancel leave of doctors and ban transfer of doctors at least till October 14," a state medical and health department official told IANS.
He said directions have been issued to conduct blood and other diagnostic tests at the earliest on the patients showing signs of malaria, dengue or chikungunya.
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