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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 24 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 639 patients with ages ranging
between 6 to 82 years were admitted at AKUH between June 14 to November
16, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever. Out of these, fourteen patients
expired due to severity of disease, while 601 recovered and were
discharged. The patients suffered from symptoms ranging from bleeding,
diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Two hundred and eighty one 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 610 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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