February 22, 2016
A 19-year-old patient, currently being treated in an isolation ward in the Ooty Government Hospital, has been confirmed as suffering from dengue.
According to the hospital sources, Ashik of Main Bazaar in Ooty, was suffering from fever for the last four days. His blood samples were sent to the laboratories in Coimbatore and Chennai. The samples had tested positive for dengue and the doctors attending to him have kept Ashik in an isolation ward.
It was also recorded in the hospital registry that the patient was suffering from dengue.