Jamshedpur, Sept 28: Dengue continues to spread in the steel city even as the district administration tries hard to prevent the disease from assuming alarming proportions.

After Tata Main Hospital where cases of dengue were reported earlier, it is the turn of Guru Nanak Medical and Research Centre in Mango to get patients ? five in all ? affected by the disease.

The mother of one of the patients said her daughter, before being admitted to the nursing home, was running a high temperature and complained of acute pain in the body, especially her eyes.

?We brought her to the nursing home thinking that she was suffering just from a common viral fever, but the doctors tested her and came out with the findings that she was down with dengue,? the woman said, adding, the patient was recovering.

According to Subhash Kumar, the resident medical officer of the nursing home, patients with the symptoms of dengue started arriving from the last week.

Since there was no testing kit available in the steel city, the patients were assumed to be suffering from dengue fever and treated accordingly.

?We started carrying out the card test of dengue from September 24 and the patients who were tested positive were admitted to the nursing home only after that. After that, we informed the district civil surgeon office about the number of dengue cases being reported on a regular basis,? the doctor said.

Deputy commissioner, East Singhbhum district, Nitin Madan Kulkarni, also an MBBS degree holder, said he had instructed the civil surgeon to do a study of the area where the mosquitoes responsible for dengue are breeding.

?I am very serious about dengue. I have asked the civil surgeon to identify the areas which need to be covered urgently with the programme of DDT spraying and removal of stagnant water,? said the deputy commissioner, Madan Nitin Kulkarni.

The deputy commissioner told The Telegraph that there must be more cases of dengue in and around the city, and has instructed the civil surgeon to find out the exact number of cases reported in the various hospitals and nursing homes.

The Indian Medical Association?s Jamshedpur chapter has launched a drive to get the exact number of dengue patients in Jamshedpur by obtaining data from pathological laboratories operating in the steel city.

Meanwhile, DAV School, Patelnagar, today organised a condolence meeting on the institute?s premises to mourn the death of a student, Imran Ali, allegedly due to dengue.

Ali, who was 14, was a resident of Sakchi. He died on Monday, said B.S. Solanki, a teacher of the school.