Dengue epidemic worsens in Kupang

Sat, 11 Feb 1995

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)

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