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Friday, January 24, 2025

T&T records 9th dengue death

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153 days ago
20240823

Kittisak Kaewchalun

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed an­oth­er dengue death in the coun­try, tak­ing the num­ber of those who have suc­cumbed to the virus this year to nine.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the min­istry al­so con­firmed there are 911 lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed cas­es of dengue fever. The num­ber of lab-con­firmed cas­es jumped by 86 cas­es from the min­istry's last state­ment six days ago.

On Wednes­day, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that 40-year-old fa­ther of five, Kern Sargeant, had died af­ter be­ing af­flict­ed with symp­toms of dengue fever. Be­fore that, eight-year-old Nel­isha Nar­ine, from Princes Town, who was a Stan­dard One stu­dent at North Trace Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, died from dengue.

Mean­while, To­ba­go’s dengue cas­es have climbed to 36, with 18 new cas­es re­port­ed since Au­gust 2.

In an up­date on Tues­day by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Sec­re­tary, Dr Faith B.Yis­rael said the is­land has not had any dengue fa­tal­i­ties.

Coun­ty Vic­to­ria is re­port­ing the high­est num­ber of dengue cas­es in T&T.

On Wednes­day, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal sharply crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment's han­dling of the out­break, call­ing it a ma­jor fail­ure.

Ear­li­er this week, Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh dis­missed claims that there is a short­age of nurs­es or med­ical staff to at­tend to dengue pa­tients, even as the T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent raised con­cern about the pres­sure nurs­es are un­der due to the high lev­el of pa­tients re­port­ing to health in­sti­tu­tions seek­ing treat­ment for dengue symp­toms.


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