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A 26-year-old man, who was admitted to the Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Hospital earlier this month with mpox, has been discharged after 14 days, hospital officials said Monday.
The patient from Hisar in Haryana with suspected symptoms was admitted to the special disaster ward dedicated to mpox cases on September 8. A day later, doctors confirmed the mpox diagnosis. “He is the only mpox patient admitted this year and was discharged on September 22,” said an official at the hospital.
The hospital has 20 isolation rooms of which 10 are for suspected mpox cases and the remaining for confirmed cases.
Guru Teg Bahadur and Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospitals have set aside five rooms each for suspected and confirmed cases.
An infectious viral disease, mpox symptoms include rash and formation of blisters, accompanied by fever. The World Health Organisation last month had declared mpox a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ for the second time in view of its prevalence and spread across many parts of Africa.
In 2022, many countries, including India, reported a number of cases. Since then, around 99,176 cases and 208 deaths have been reported across 116 countries. India recorded 30 mpox cases between 2022 and March this year.
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