Two students from the Tamil Nadu Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC) compound in ward 48 Uthukuzhi Road in Tirupur have been diagnosed with high fever and are being kept under watch by the Tirupur Corporation.
Though officials deny that the students were suffering from dengue, they said they were yet to identify the virus they were suffering from. The incident has reportedly prompted the corporation and collectorate to conduct a fever camp in the area.
Tirupur corporation's health department officials admitted that two boys were suffering from high fever. "One of them, an eight-year-old boy had high body temperature for more than a day and was admitted to Revathy Hospital, Tirupur, for two days ," said the corporation's city health officer-in-charge.
"When we were informed we did another surveillance of the area and diagnosed one more boy with fever and have put him on medications," he said. "However, they are not displaying any symptoms of dengue. If they do have dengue, they will be admitted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital immediately," he added.
Though a fever camp has been set up in and around Palladam Nagar Road, corporation officials denied that it was because of these two cases. "We routinely conduct fever camps across the 60 wards in the district," said the official. "We divide the 60 wards into 10 each, depute teams to them and cover all the wards every week. It is probably a coincidence that on Saturday a fever camp was conducted near the home," said the official.
The district has been conducting regular dengue awareness drives for the past one year. "This includes indoor and outdoor checking of breeding areas, checking public for fever and conducting anti-larval operations like spraying pesticides into drains," said the official. The district recorded at least five children dying between February and May last year due to viral fever. "This new virus also caused platelets to fall rapidly causing severe weakness and finally internal bleeding, just like in the case of dengue but without symptoms like stomach pain, rashes and muscle pain," said CMCH dean Dr Edwin Joe. "People have to be careful if they have temperatures for three days or more to consult a doctor at the earliest," he said.
Though officials deny that the students were suffering from dengue, they said they were yet to identify the virus they were suffering from. The incident has reportedly prompted the corporation and collectorate to conduct a fever camp in the area.
Tirupur corporation's health department officials admitted that two boys were suffering from high fever. "One of them, an eight-year-old boy had high body temperature for more than a day and was admitted to Revathy Hospital, Tirupur, for two days ," said the corporation's city health officer-in-charge.
"When we were informed we did another surveillance of the area and diagnosed one more boy with fever and have put him on medications," he said. "However, they are not displaying any symptoms of dengue. If they do have dengue, they will be admitted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital immediately," he added.
Though a fever camp has been set up in and around Palladam Nagar Road, corporation officials denied that it was because of these two cases. "We routinely conduct fever camps across the 60 wards in the district," said the official. "We divide the 60 wards into 10 each, depute teams to them and cover all the wards every week. It is probably a coincidence that on Saturday a fever camp was conducted near the home," said the official.
The district has been conducting regular dengue awareness drives for the past one year. "This includes indoor and outdoor checking of breeding areas, checking public for fever and conducting anti-larval operations like spraying pesticides into drains," said the official. The district recorded at least five children dying between February and May last year due to viral fever. "This new virus also caused platelets to fall rapidly causing severe weakness and finally internal bleeding, just like in the case of dengue but without symptoms like stomach pain, rashes and muscle pain," said CMCH dean Dr Edwin Joe. "People have to be careful if they have temperatures for three days or more to consult a doctor at the earliest," he said.