Dengue epidemic worsens in Kupang

Dengue epidemic worsens in Kupang

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Hospitals are struggling to cope
with the increasing number of people being admitted with dengue
fever as the epidemic worsens, an official said yesterday.

Chief of the provincial health office Eddy Lamannepa said the
number of people infected with the disease in the Kupang regency
has risen from 10 people late last month to 163 yesterday.

Antara reported yesterday that the lack of beds has forced
dozens of patients, many of them children, to undergo medical
treatment in hospital corridors.

So far the epidemic has claimed one life. Dengue fever has
also has also hit neighboring regency of Belu. (pan)