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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH),
27 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 528 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82 years were admitted
at AKUH between June 14 to November 8, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever. Out
of these, eleven patients expired due to severity of disease, while 490 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
506 patients were received from Karachi and the remaining patients came from
Larkana, Hyderabad, Thatta, Dadu, Saedabad, 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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