KARACHI, Nov 2: The Sindh health department on Friday confirmed another fatality caused by the dengue virus at a hospital, pushing the dengue death toll to 17 in the city.

In-charge of the provincial dengue monitoring cell, Dr Shakeel Mullick, said that the latest death was reported from Dr Ziauddin Hospital on Oct 31.

The deceased, a young man of 18, was admitted to the hospital with the tendency of bleeding and was tested positive for dengue. He said the government had been informed about a total of 14 dengue-related deaths during the past seven weeks.

The statistics provided by the cell do not include a dengue-related death confirmed by the PNS Shifa about 12 days back and deaths of two other patients reported from private hospitals during the last two months.

Meanwhile, hospitals received 56 new patients suspected of having contracted mosquito-borne diseases during the last 24 hours ending at 3pm on Friday.