The number of suspected chikungunya cases being seen at the West Demerara Regional Hospital have doubled within the past two weeks as people continue to throng the institution for treatment, a hospital official has said.
Presently, there are 13,006 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne virus across the region, said the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in an update on its website on Monday. Of these, 1,870 cases were recorded from 22 of the 24 CARPHA Member States, while 11,136 cases were reported from 11 other countries. So far the agency has recorded 118 deaths.
The official at the hospital said doctors were treating over 100 patients with symptoms of the virus every day.
Most of these patients are coming from Georgetown. “We have seen an increase in the number of people coming in with
