KARACHI: Dengue haemorrhagic fever claimed two more lives in the city, bringing the toll of the mosquito-borne disease in Sindh so far this year to 45, officials said on Saturday.

A private hospital reported the death of a 32-year-old woman due to the lethal infection.

The woman, a resident of an Abul Hasan Ispahani Road locality in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, suffered from septic shock and multi-organ failure. She was brought in a precarious condition to the hospital, where she died during treatment. Another dengue patient, a 16-year-old boy, was brought to the same hospital from Usmanabad locality in a critical condition and he too died during treatment of septic shock and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome.

As many as 69 dengue cases have been reported at various hospitals and clinics in the city over the last 24 hours.

A total of 15,963 cases have been reported from across the province so far this year and a majority of them was documented in Karachi.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2019