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Cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) in the General Hospital in Central Jakarta increased Fatmawati last four months. According to the Director of Medical and Nursing Center Fatmawati General Hospital in Jakarta, Tini Sekarwati, in Jakarta, Tuesday, during the month of April 2010 the hospital to handle 354 cases of DHF in children and adults.

The figure is far greater than the number of DHF cases handled by the hospital on the previous months.

In January 2010, Tini explains, hospitals located in South Jakarta area was handling 219 cases of DHF cases and then increased to 225 cases in February and to 280 in March.

"But the number of cases is lower than the case with the same period in 2009. Death rate is also low, between 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent. Even in April there was no patient who died, "he said.

According to him, the rate of death from infectious disease through the bite of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes decreases with increasing the quality of case management in hospitals.

"Handling a patient come in so quickly since the risk of death can be suppressed," she said.

He said it also has a special trick to treat patients with symptoms of dengue fever.

"The first day until the fourth, the patient is given a yellow sign, given 4-7 days marked in red, then green. Flagging performed so that doctors and health workers to give special attention to the patient, "he said.

Previously Director of Disease Control Ministry of Health Animal Sourced Rita Kusriastuti said it had asked local vector eradication programs enable to anticipate the possibility of increased cases of dengue.

He also urged the public to participate in activities to eradicate mosquito breeding by 3M plus, which is drained and closed water reservoirs, buried trash that can retain water and become mosquito breeding, environmental cleaning, sprinkle abate at the site of a water reservoir, and using drugs to treat mosquitoes.