13 Patients Under Treatment at Aga Khan University Hospital for Viral Haemorrhagic Fever
At Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), 13 patients are currently hospitalized with suspect viral haemorrhagic fever. The decrease in the number of such cases continues. So far, a total of 803 patients with ages ranging between 6 to 82 years were admitted at AKUH between June 14 to December 18, 2006 with viral haemorrhagic fever. Out of these, 17 patients expired due to severity of disease, while 773 recovered and were discharged. The patients suffered from symptoms ranging from bleeding, diarrhoea, vomiting to abdominal pain.
Three hundred and fourteen 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 764 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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