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At
Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 22 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 750 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82 years were admitted
at AKUH between June 14 to November 29, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic
fever. Out of these, fifteen patients expired due to severity of disease,
while 713 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 718 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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