LAHORE: After the death of a senior doctor of the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital (BVH) from the Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), another two suspected patients of the virus surfaced in Lahore.

Barki Road-based Imran and Ichhra resident Imtiaz Ahmad are under treatment at the Services Hospital.

The health authorities generated an alert in the wake of emergence of suspected CCHF virus cases and directed the hospital administration to put the patients in an isolation ward.

A team of the health department collected samples of the patients for further checkup in the National Institute of Health, Islamabad.

The team also questioned the relatives of the suspected patients.

A spokesman for the health department said both patients were being kept under strict vigilance under a team of senior doctors.

The spokesman said that the health authorities had already been alerted after the deaths of Dr Sagheer Sameeja from the BVH and trainee nurse Nadia Hina from Lodhran from the virus.

BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital administration sealed the gaynae ward after patient Fehmida died after a caesarean operation when her blood platelets counts went down to 66,000.

BVH Medical Superintendent Dr Shahid Faraz denied any sign of Congo virus in her.

Another woman, Abida, of Lodhran, was also hospitalised.

Quaid-i-Azam Medical College Principal Prof Dr Haroon Khursheed Pasha told Dawn she also did not carry any Congo symptoms.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2016