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SAD councillors hold protest outside subdivisional hospitalManmeet Singh GillTribune News ServiceAmritsar, October 17Dengue count in the district has seen a sudden jump in the previous week. The situation led to a protest outside the sub-divisional hospital by Shiromani Akali Dal councillors on Thursday. The councillors demanded that dengue diagnosis test should be made available free-of-cost at the sub-divisional hospital. If the tests are done for free at the sub-divisional hospital, it would people from economically-weaker sections,” said Jaspal Singh. “With no facilities available at government hospitals, poor patients are forced to visit private hospitals which charge heavily,” he said..