Dengue Boy Denied Admission In Hospital

Three more persons succumbed to dengue on Wednesday, taking the number of deaths to 14 as hospitals across Delhi continued to wilt under a huge rush of patients down with the mosquito-borne fever.

Amid a rise in the number of dengue cases, the Union Health Ministry today asked Delhi government to increase bed strength in state hospitals and check overcharging of patients by private hospitals.

The Union Health Ministry has sought a report from the Delhi government over the death of a seven-year-old boy who died of suspected dengue after being refused admission by private hospitals in the city. Meanwhile, Delhi's Health Department issued show-cause notices to five private hospitals that allegedly turned away dengue patients.

In a tragic case, the parents of a seven-year-old boy who died of suspected dengue after allegedly being denied admission by two prominent private hospitals in New Delhi committed suicide by jumping from a four-storeyed building in south Delhi's Lado Sarai.

Three more persons succumbed to dengue on Wednesday, taking the number of deaths to 14 as hospitals across Delhi continued to wilt under a huge rush of patients down with the mosquito-borne fever.

Amid a rise in the number of dengue cases, the Union Health Ministry today asked Delhi government to increase bed strength in state hospitals and check overcharging of patients by private hospitals.

The Union Health Ministry has sought a report from the Delhi government over the death of a seven-year-old boy who died of suspected dengue after being refused admission by private hospitals in the city. Meanwhile, Delhi's Health Department issued show-cause notices to five private hospitals that allegedly turned away dengue patients.

In a tragic case, the parents of a seven-year-old boy who died of suspected dengue after allegedly being denied admission by two prominent private hospitals in New Delhi committed suicide by jumping from a four-storeyed building in south Delhi's Lado Sarai.