As dengue continues to fill hospital beds and even consume lives at its most extreme, it is evident that Mumbai needs to look deeply and carefully at the malaise sweeping through the city. Reports state that there has been a significant rise in the number of dengue-related deaths in Mumbai. In the state too, there has been a rise in dengue-related deaths, proving that authorities need to take more action more aggressively than they are doing right now.

With the rise in dengue fever in the city, health departments had issued orders to private hospitals to provide information of all dengue patients to the civic body.