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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 25 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 743 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82 years were admitted
at AKUH between June 14 to November 28, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever.
Out of these, fifteen patients expired due to severity of disease, while 703
recovered and were discharged. The patients suffered from symptoms ranging from
bleeding, diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Two hundred and ninety eight 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 711 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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