Dengue patients increasing in East Java`s Bangkalan

Antara News, Monday, January 11, 2010 19:30 WIB

Bangkalan, E Java (ANTARA News) - The number of patients suffering from dengue fever in the current rainy season at Syarifah Ambami Rato Ebu (RSA) hospital in Bangkalan, East Java, is on the rise, the hospital`s director said.

"Since the beginning of this year the number of dengue fever patients treated at this hospital has increased to 22 persons," RSA hospital director Teguh Basukohadi said here on Monday.

He said that the number of dengue patients since early this month was high compared with that in the previous month (December 2009).

"The increase in the number of dengue patients is still categorized normal because all of them still could be handled and we still have enough beds to accommodate them," he said.