'Chikungunya patients can be treated at home'
A Chikungunya patient need not be hospitalised and can be treated at home, the Indian Medical Association's Noida President has said. Normally paracetamol tablets are given for fever along with an anti-allergic medicine and patients need to take a lot of fluids, he said. Death occurs only if other complications of renal failure or serious ailments are involved, he added.