Rupandehi lacks testing kits amid ‘alarming’ rise in cases

More than 1,800 patients with high fever have been admitted to Lumbini Provincial Hospital in the last two weeks.

After suffering from high fever, headache and body ache for 10 days, Dhurva Acharya, 43, who lives at Ramnagar in Butwal, finally decided to visit the nearby Siddhababa Hospital. He was diagnosed with dengue, with his platelets count dropping to as low as 40,000 per microlitre of blood.