Dengue claims another life in Pindi, 141 more cases in a day

Rawalpindi : Dengue fever has claimed another life from Rawalpindi district in the last 24 hours that has taken the total number of deaths so far reported from the district this year due to the infection to 10 while the situation regarding spread of the infection is getting more and more alarming as the dengue fever outbreak is getting intense with every passing day.

Data collected by ‘The News’ on Tuesday reveals that a 32-year old female confirmed patient of dengue fever who was a resident of Mohra Shah Wali in Taxila died of the infection in the last 24 hours. The patient was undergoing treatment at Holy Family Hospital in town.

Meanwhile, another 141 individuals belonging to Rawalpindi district have tested positive for dengue fever in the last one day taking the total number of confirmed patients of the infection reported this year from the district to 4,427. It is important that the number of confirmed dengue fever patients being reported from the district has once again started recording a sharp increase, at least in the last four days or so. Data reveals that the dengue fever outbreak has claimed at least two lives from the district in the last four days while as many as 472 more patients have been confirmed positive for the infection in the last four days registering an average of 118 cases per day that has turned the situation alarming.

Data also reveals that the number of dengue fever patients from Rawalpindi district who were undergoing treatment at the teaching hospitals in the district reached 270 on Tuesday. According to details, as many as 77 patients belonging to Rawalpindi district were undergoing treatment at Holy Family Hospital on Tuesday, 68 at Benazir Bhutto Hospital, 44 at Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital and 27 at Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi. Health experts say that the weather is getting colder in the region but it would remain highly suitable for the spread of the infection and for growth of ‘aedes aegypti’, the mosquito that causes dengue fever, at least, till the middle of November and the fact makes the existing situation more alarming.