RAWALPINDI: A suspected Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) patient from Taxila was admitted to the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) here on Friday.

Abdul Qudus, 41, was brought to the hospital with the symptoms of CCHF and kept in an isolation room.

“The blood samples of the patient have been sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the confirmation of the virus. The report will come in two days,” said a senior doctor of the hospital.

Earlier, a woman was declared the CCHF patient at the hospital. “The condition of the patient is stable and she will recover soon,” Dr Javed Hayat, the in-charge of the infectious diseases unit at the HFH, told Dawn. He said the CCHF female patient belonged to a village in the district of Chakwal.

Director health Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal said the city government had called a meeting of health, agriculture and livestock departments next week to prepare precautionary measures to avoid the spread of the disease in the cattle market before Eidul Azha.

Published in Dawn, September 20th , 2014