Dengue fever has killed two residents of the East Java town of Kediri. The victims were identified as Lorde Bintang S. and Anggoro, local hospital authorities said. Director of Gambiran Public Hospital Sentot Imam Suprapto said here Thursday Lorde had been in bad condition when he was admitted to the hospital. "We have done our best to save him," he said. Over the past two months, 103 Kediri residents had suffered from the fever, usually transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, ANTARA reported. Suprapto said the 4.5-year-old Lorde had lack of trombosit when he was brought to the hospital. The other victim was Anggoro. This university student was admitted to Dr. Soetomo public hospital in East Java capital of Surabaya but the doctors failed to save him. He died on Thursday morning. The number of dengue fever patients being treated at Gambiran public hospital tended to increase. "If in January, there are 39 patients, the number increases to 59 in mid February," Suprapto said. The hospital averagely received 10 patients everyday. Due to over capacity, some patients were cared at the hospital's corridors. "We have so far cared 25 patients in the children rooms while the rooms are ideally just for 19 children," he said. In halting the spread of the dengue fever during the rainy season, the Kediri government spokesman, Nur Mukhyar, had called on his people to participate in keeping their neighborhoods clean. He said the people need to get rid of stagnant water within their houses because it could be used as the Aedes mosquitoes' breeding site.
