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Dengue toll rises to eight as woman dies
[Dawn]  The death of yet another dengue patient, a 40-year-old woman, was confirmed here on Monday, taking this year's dengue-related deaths in the city to eight.In the last 10 days, two people, both women, died of dengue, while the total number of patients who tested positive for dengue rose to 472 in the city on Monday, the highest among the 16 dengue-affected districts of Sindh. According to the focal person of the Sindh health department's provincial dengue surveillance cell, Dr Shakeel A. Mullick, the woman, a resident of Block-4, Nazimabad, was admitted to Dr Ziauddin Hospital on Oct 4. Tested positive for dengue, she died at the hospital on Oct 8. The focal person said the confirmation of the death was delayed as results of some tests were awaited by the doctors concerned. Earlier, a woman, resident of F. B Area, was reported dead due to dengue in Dr Ziauddin Hospital on Sept 9. Since January, according to the surveillance reports, three persons, including two women, have died of dengue at the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi between Sept 19 and Oct 3. Two more patients died at the Aga Khan University Hospital and a woman died at the OMI Hospital. In the meantime, the number of patients admitted to various hospitals or seen in the OPDs for dengue-like symptoms reached 682 in the city, 69 per cent of whom tested positive for the disease while test results of a number of patients were yet to be known. Posted by: Fred 2011-10-12 |
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