40% of posts lie vacant in MCD health centres
(WorldNews India)

Mass outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya have infected many Delhiites but the Capital remains ill-prepared, with hundreds of health staff posts remaining vacant in all MCD-run hospitals for the last few years Twenty-five-year-old Anita still remembers an ordeal from last year. She spent four days on a bench of the municipal primary health centre in southwest Delhi's Uttam Nagar before she was informed that her seven-year-old daughter's high fever was actually dengue. For the first two days, the rush of patients was so much that she had to return home with a pill to control the fever. She was lucky to get an...