29th dengue patient dies in Sindh

KARACHI: Deadly dengue viral fever claimed another life in Hyderabad on Friday, said Dr M Shakeel Aamir Mullick Focal Person for Dengue Surveillance Cell Sindh.

Mullick said a 63-year-old man resident of Hyderabad city expired in on 21st of November and case was reported to Dengue Surveillance Cell on Friday.

He said elderly man was admitted in hospital on 8th of November.

He said total 25 dengue fever patients have died in Karachi in 2013 while three expired in Hyderabad and one person died in Mirpurkhas so far.

Mullick said 20 more dengue viral fever cases were reported across the province. 10 inpatient 10 OPD cases.

He said 16 new cases were reported in Karachi while four in Hyderabad.

He said that a total of 4800 dengue fever cases have been reported in Sindh province since January 2013 out of which 4171 were detected in Karachi and 629 in rest of Sindh province.

Dr Mullick said 20 dengue cases were reported late from hospitals. He further informed that 569 cases have been detected in Hyderabad, 21 in Mirpurkhas, 10 in Jamshoro, six in Thatta, four each in Sukkur and Shikarpur, two each in Kambar, Sanghar, Dadu, Larkana and Kashmore and one each in Khairpur, Naushehro Feroze, Badin, Tharparkar and Umerkot since January 2013.(PPI)