KARACHI, Nov 30: The Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre has received another patient suspected of haemorrhagic fever, it was learnt on Wednesday. The new entrant, Niaz, 23, a resident of Railway Colony, was admitted with history of prolonged fever and bleeding from gums.

Dr Seemin Jamali, in-charge of JPMC emergency ward, said that X-ray report pertaining to chest of the new patient and tests for malaria diseases did not give any positive result, while other tests to confirm viral hemorrhagic fever of dengue were in progress.

The total number of haemorrhagic fever patients reached to eight at the JPMC, where all except one are young males. Confirmation of any viral disease, including dengue, was still awaited from Islamabad, said a source in the hospital.

At the Civil Hospital Karachi, no new case was admitted to the isolation ward on Wednesday.

However, a survey revealed that the ages of all the seven patients, including two women, were ranging from 13 to 30 years.

About a patient admitted to CHK on Tuesday, it was learnt that after examination and conducting various tests, a private university hospital had referred him to the government hospital on the pretext that it (private concerned) did not had isolation facility for the patient in question.

Doctors have yet to correlate the fact that majority of the patients kept in isolation wards at the two government hospitals were male and young. The number of male patients was on higher side perhaps due to fact that they were exposed to poor environment and other hazards more frequently, remarked a senior doctor.

In the meantime, a doctor of Aga Khan University Hospital said that till Wednesday morning there were 13 patients suspected to be suffering from haemorrhagic fever, of which six belonged to Karachi. He mentioned that the age of all the patients was between 22 and 47 years.