Delhi faces dengue fever outbreak

New Delhi, India - Hospitals in Delhi are struggling with an overload of dengue fever patients, as the capital tries to cope with the worst outbreak of the disease in five years, a doctor has told Al Jazeera. Mohammad Yahya, a resident doctor at the Hindu Rao Hospital, said on Tuesday that staff had reserved half of the wards for dengue patients, as hospitals continued to be inundated with patients from across the city. "In some wards we have two-to-four dengue patients on a single bed," he said. Yahya's comments came as the Delhi health ministry ordered all government hospitals to open "fever clinics" at their premises in a bid to detect the disease at the primary level. The ministry said that patients should only admit themselves to hospital after consulting a doctor and not out of panic, the Indian Express reported.   Al Jazeera