Rishabh Dengue

The intermittent sobs are hard to miss. As relatives and friends gather to pay their condolences to Ram Kishore, whose teenaged son, Rishabh, died of dengue on Thursday, there is anger and helplessness. In one week, the security guard's family took a loan and spent close to Rs 3 lakh for 17-year-old Rishabh's treatment in different private hospital...

Four more people succumbed to dengue in the capital, taking the death toll to 20, prompting the Delhi government to approve nearly 800 additional beds in 48 private hospitals as the city's health facilities crawled under heavy rush of patients affected by the disease.

The intermittent sobs are hard to miss. As relatives and friends gather to pay their condolences to Ram Kishore, whose teenaged son, Rishabh, died of dengue on Thursday, there is anger and helplessness. In one week, the security guard's family took a loan and spent close to Rs 3 lakh for 17-year-old Rishabh's treatment in different private hospital...

Four more people succumbed to dengue in the capital, taking the death toll to 20, prompting the Delhi government to approve nearly 800 additional beds in 48 private hospitals as the city's health facilities crawled under heavy rush of patients affected by the disease.