New Delhi: A 31-year-old Nigerian woman in Delhi on Wednesday has been found infected with monkeypox. With this, the total number of people infected with monkeypox in the country has gone up to nine, said sources as reported by news agency PTI. This is the fourth person found infected with monkeypox in Delhi. She is the first woman in the country to test positive for monkeypox infection.
Sources told PTI that there is no information about her travelling abroad recently. The woman with fever and skin lesions has been admitted to the Delhi government-run nodal hospital LNJP Hospital for treatment of the infection.
Out of the three cases found earlier in Delhi, one has been cured and he has been discharged from the hospital. In this way, at present three cases are active in the capital.
Govt Hospitals ‘Operational’ For Monkeypox Treatment In Delhi: Official Sources
According to the Health Department of Delhi Government, preparations are being made to deal with monkeypox. Isolation rooms have been made in
hospitals.
“The isolation rooms for the treatment of Monkeypox patients are operational in three major central government hospitals i.e Safdarjang hospital, RML hospital and Lady Hardinge hospital,” official sources told ANI on Wednesday.
In an official statement issued on Tuesday, the Delhi govt said 20 isolation rooms have been made in Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, 10 in Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital (GTB) Hospital and 10 in Dr. Ambedkar Hospital.