Eid feast: Dozens in hospital due to over-eating
Dengue infections going down with falling temperature, says Health Dept.
LAHORE:
Dozens of people ended up in hospital with stomach problems during the Eid holidays.
A doctor at the Mayo Hospital emergency ward said that 90 percent of the patients that came in during the Eid holidays had gastroenteritis. Some of them were hepatitis C patients who fainted after eating too much red meat, he said. “Others suffered from indigestion due to over-eating,” he added.
The doctor in charge of the Services Hospital emergency ward said that while some heart and diabetes patients too came in during the Eid holidays, most of their patients complained of stomach ailments.
Meanwhile, the number of dengue patients went down during the Eid holidays because of the cooler temperatures, a Health Department spokesman said.
Doctors want acknowledgement
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has demanded that doctors serving at public hospitals be given certificates of appreciation for their efforts during the dengue outbreak and in flood relief campaigns. “We served during the Eid holidays when all other departments were closed. We served in 2010 when the worst floods in the history of this country played havoc. We did our best during the dengue epidemic and hospitals remained operative 24 hours a day to serve patients,” said YDA secretary general Dr Salman Kazmi. “We request the chief minister to give certificates of appreciation to doctors singed out by the health secretary.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 10th, 2011.
Dozens of people ended up in hospital with stomach problems during the Eid holidays.
A doctor at the Mayo Hospital emergency ward said that 90 percent of the patients that came in during the Eid holidays had gastroenteritis. Some of them were hepatitis C patients who fainted after eating too much red meat, he said. “Others suffered from indigestion due to over-eating,” he added.
The doctor in charge of the Services Hospital emergency ward said that while some heart and diabetes patients too came in during the Eid holidays, most of their patients complained of stomach ailments.
Meanwhile, the number of dengue patients went down during the Eid holidays because of the cooler temperatures, a Health Department spokesman said.
Doctors want acknowledgement
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has demanded that doctors serving at public hospitals be given certificates of appreciation for their efforts during the dengue outbreak and in flood relief campaigns. “We served during the Eid holidays when all other departments were closed. We served in 2010 when the worst floods in the history of this country played havoc. We did our best during the dengue epidemic and hospitals remained operative 24 hours a day to serve patients,” said YDA secretary general Dr Salman Kazmi. “We request the chief minister to give certificates of appreciation to doctors singed out by the health secretary.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 10th, 2011.