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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 21 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 670 patients with ages ranging
between 6 to 82 years were admitted at AKUH between June 14 to November
20, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever. Out of these, fifteen patients
expired due to severity of disease, while 634 recovered and were
discharged. The patients suffered from symptoms ranging from bleeding,
diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Two hundred and eighty nine 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 640 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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