Over 100 Patentia residents have visited the West Demerara Regional Hospital within the last month with symptoms of the chikungunya virus.
This is according to a hospital source, who said many people within the community have visited the hospital for treatment and most of them showed signs of the mosquito-borne virus.
When Stabroek News visited Patentia yesterday, a few residents stated that many of the households in the area have contracted the viral disease. “This thing spreading and a lot of people coming down with it. Two weeks ago, my father had it and now everyone in the house has it,” a man named Vishnu said.
He said other families in the neighbourhood were complaining about the “outbreak” since most of