Chikungunya outbreaks, in addition to the burden associated with illness, led to
unnecessary use of health care resources that were costly to patients. In Kadapa district,
medicines were overused while in Tirunelveli, a large number of patients were investigated
for thrombocytopenia. During the initial phase of the outbreak in Tirunelveli, the physicians
advised platelet counts for the fever patients as the aetiology of the disease was unknown.
Limited data are available about the treatment practices and laboratory investigations during …