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Even viral fevers are tested as dengue positive in random tests,” KGH Superintendent G.
Arjuna told The Hindu on Tuesday. When the doctors there declared my daughter Ayeendivi’s condition as serious, we rushed her to a private hospital here. Cases reported from private hospitals and diagnostic labs are not being shown in the government records as the officials say that one should not declare a person dengue positive based on random tests. more-inAt a time when the rampant spread of dengue across the district has kept the authorities on their toes, patients with suspected symptoms from rural, urban and tribal areas throng the King George Hospital (KGH). ‘Random tests do not count’The KGH authorities say that the private hospitals and labs are showing random test results, creating panic among the people..