LARKANA, Oct 24 Two confirmed and three suspected cases of dengue fever were brought to hospitals in Larkana in recent days.

Prof Dr Hakim Abro, head of the department of medicine at the Chandka Medical College Hospital, said that the confirmed patients, Aneela, 18, and Kashif, 30, had been admitted recently and discharged after they recovered.

Imran, Meezan Ali and Ghulam Abbas were suspected to be suffering from dengue fever. Their test results, Dr Abro said, were being awaited.

Meezan Ali is admitted to a private medical centre and the others have been discharged by the CMCH.

Medical Superintendent of the CMCH Dr Zulfikar Siyal said that Sindh Secretary of Health Syed Hashim Raza had called a meeting of medical superintendents of teaching hospitals and executive district officers (health) in Karachi on Monday to address the matter.