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At
Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 16 patients are currently hospitalised
with suspect viral haemorrhagic fever. This obviously reflects a decrease
in the number of such cases within the last two weeks. So far, a total
of 763 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82 years were admitted
at AKUH between June 14 to December 2, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic
fever. Out of these, fifteen patients expired due to severity of disease,
while 732 recovered and were discharged. The patients suffered from
symptoms ranging from bleeding, diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Three hundred and five patients were diagnosed to have Dengue haemorrhagic
fever, three patients suffered from Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
while in the remaining, the special serological tests were either negative or
the results are pending. A total of 730 patients were received from Karachi
and the remaining patients came from Larkana, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Thatta, Dadu,
Saeedabad, Nawabshah, Rahim Yar Khan, Gharo, Mirpurkhas, Sujawal, Gilgit, Baluchistan
and Saudi Arabia.
Dr Farhat Abbas, Medical Director & Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs, Aga
Khan University Hospital.
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