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At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH),
19 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 714 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82
years were admitted at AKUH between June 14 to November 24, 2006 with viral
haemorrhagic fever. Out of these, fifteen patients expired due to severity of
disease, while 680 recovered and were discharged. The patients suffered from
symptoms ranging from bleeding, diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Two hundred and ninety six 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
682 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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