KARACHI, Nov 11: Another 67 fresh patients suspected of suffering viral haemorrhagic fever were rushed to nine hospitals, while a woman succumbed to dengue fever at a private hospital during the past 24 hours ending at 4pm on Saturday.
The dengue and VHF has killed 38 people in the province during the last five months out of which eight have been expired since Nov 2. The total death toll in the wake of dengue in Karachi, as per Dengue Fever Cell of the Sindh health department, came as 34.
Dr Shakeel A Mullick of the Dengue Fever Cell said that Farhana who was admitted on Oct 13 for treatment of dengue fever died at the Aga Khan University Hospital on Friday night. Thus the number of deaths due to VHF or dengue at AKU has soared to 12.
As updated by the DFC on Oct 31, as many as 30 VHF suspected or dengue positive cases, including 27 from Karachi, were reported dead from all over the province, while the number of patients admitted to hospital at that time was 1960, out of which 627 were detected positive for dengue fever.
According to DFC data, in all 3,335 patients have been admitted to hospitals during the last five months, which included 3275 patients in Karachi. As such about 1375 patients were brought to hospitals in past 11 days, out of which 619 have been tested as dengue positive, which provides enough reason for our health authorities to check the flaws in the ongoing controlling and surveillance exercise, said health circles.
A maximum of 12 patients each were brought to the AKU and Dr Ziauddin hospitals during the past 24 hours, followed by nine at Liaquat National Hospital, eight at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and seven at Jinnah hospital.
The patient position at different city hospitals on Saturday remained as follows: AKU-26 (12 new), LNH-37 (9 new), CHK-10 (6), JPMC-43 (7), ZUH-53 (12), NICH-7 (3), ASH-30 (8), Baqai-10 (Zero), Patel hospital-6 (4), Darul Shifa-10 (6), while Bismillah Taqi, Hamid Hospital and Karachi Adventist Hospital did not report to the DFC on Saturday.
The number of dengue positive patients till Saturday came in Karachi as 1,223.
