Bhilai, Oct 12, 2018: With the death of a 74-year-old lady at JLN Hospital on Friday, the death toll from dengue has risen to 45 in the twin-city. After battling for life in the Intensive Care Unit for 21 days, Scindia Nagar resident Mukul Kanjilal, wife of Arun Kumar Kanjilal breathed her last in the wee hours of Friday. It was possibly the fifth dengue death in the limits of Durg Municipal Corporation. Though the concerned officials are not confirming it to be a dengue death, the relatives claimed that the patients was admitted with symptoms of dengue shock syndrome and dengue haemorrahage syndrome and thereafter the doctors on day-two at the hospital had confirmed it to be a case of dengue. As the victim was an entitled patient for BSP Hospital and was admitted in the ICU only, the relatives did not get any investigation reports.
According to information, Mukul Kanjilal was taken to the JLN Hospital, Sector 9 on September 21 with complaint of upset stomach and disorientation. Within few hours, her condition deteriorated and she was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit and was immediately put on the ventilators. Talking to Central Chronicle, her son Prosenjit Kanjilal informed that the during counseling at ICU on September 22, the doctors informed that it was a case of dengue and the platelet count has dropped to 13000 ppm. The relatives gave consent to transfusion of platelets, Fresh Frozen Plasma and blood. Within a couple of days, the vitals came to normal range but the patient was still on ventilators in unconscious state. In the meanwhile, the patient caught ICU transmitted Super Bug infection resulting in other complications like septicemia and multiple organ failure which finally took her life.
Till October 08, her condition was stated to be stable but due to sudden increase in ICU admissions after BSP Gasline mishap, the patient was shifted to another bed after which her condition deteriorated all of a sudden. On October 09, the doctors informed that the patient’s brain was not working and thereafter at around 04:00 hrs on Friday, she was declared dead.