The state’s head medical doctor, Padmakar Singh, said makeshift clinics equipped with malaria kits were being set up in villages where people had been reported sick. Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Sidharthnath Singh said patients were testing positive for malaria and viral infection, a usually non-fatal sickness that causes coughing and colds. Health authorities said there were 47 fever-related deaths during a three-month period starting at the end of July last year. Singh, the state’s health minister, said heavier than average rains had likely contributed to this year’s outbreak. Alam said the government’s count did not include deaths in private hospitals or in villages where sick people had not sought medical help.

Source: thestar September 13, 2018 12:33 UTC