Dengue fever

Jakarta braces for dengue fever.

The city Health Agency is currently faced sharp attacks, 914 cases of dengue were recorded in two months.
Agency Head Emawati agency said Friday it was 20 beds and medical staff provide five centers in the areas of health, including Ciracas in East Jakarta, Cempaka Putih Central Jakarta and Cilincing in North Jakarta.
"We will give priority to health centers, far from the hospital. Patients have to go to the hospital, we can the burden on hospitals," she said.
It said doctors and nurses who would be assigned to medical facilities would be selected out of 313 new health professionals who were recruited last year.
The Agency has stated that cases of dengue fever reached 914 on February 3 this year, a decrease of 25 percent over the same period last year.
In the first two months of 2009 saw a total of 1202 incident cases reached 18,000.
It said the majority of cases occurred in East Jakarta, which has seen 309 cases, followed by South Jakarta with 267 cases, North Jakarta, with 131 cases, 123 cases in West Jakarta and Central Jakarta with 84 cases.