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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 31 patients
are currently hospitalized with suspect viral haemorrhagic fever;
most of them were admitted during the last two weeks. This obviously
reflects a sudden increase in the number of such cases and is a cause
of concern. So far, a total of 524 patients with ages ranging between
6 to 82 years were admitted at AKUH between June 14 to November 7,
2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever. Out of these, ten patients expired
due to severity of disease, while 484 recovered and were discharged.
The patients suffered from symptoms ranging from bleeding, diarrhoea,
vomiting to abdominal pain.
Two hundred and forty seven 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 502 patients were received from
Karachi and the remaining patients came from Larkana, Hyderabad, Thatta, Dadu,
Saedabad, Nawabshah, 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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