Pakistan: 2010 Dengue cases

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Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-ne...es-Health-Dept

Dengue virus no more threat to masses: Health Dept (Punjab)
By: Iftikhar Alam | Published: April 17, 2010


LAHORE - There is no more threat of dengue virus in Punjab as all the preventive measures have been adopted by the Health Department including awareness campaign, fumigation etc against the mosquito-borne disease.

These views were expressed by the officials of health department Punjab here on Friday. They said, however, doctors did not subscribe to this claim reasoning that the government lacked proper system of spray and fumigation to reach out to every nook and corner where the breed of mosquito took place...

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34 new cases reported
Tuesday, 28 Sep, 2010

KARACHI, Sept 27: Suspected dengue fever cases continued to be reported in a large number at various government and private hospitals and at least 34 of the patients have been admitted to 10 different health facilities on Sunday and Monday.
Dengue surveillance cell Sindh coordinator Dr Shakil Mullick told APP on Monday that eight new dengue patients each were admitted to the Remedial Hospital and Ziauddin Hospital in North Nazimabad. The Karachi Adventist Hospital admitted six, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital two, Sindh Government Qatar Hospital three and Aga Khan Hospital, Civil Hospital and Anklesaria Hospital admitted two new dengue cases each, he added. He said the Liaquat National Hospital and OT Hospital admitted one new case each.

Dr Mullick said it was also during the past few days that two patients suffering from dengue had died. He identified them as Rehan, 20, who died on Sept 21 in Patel Hospital, and Faheem Khan, 19, who died in Mamji Hospital on Sept 23.

In reply to a question, he said the number of cases reported to his cell had markedly increased as private hospitals had started sharing the required data after heeding the provincial health department?s strict directive in this regard.?APP

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/34-new-cases-reported-890

Elderly woman, young man die of dengue fever By Mukhtar Alam
Wednesday, 29 Sep, 2010

KARACHI, Sept 28: The Sindh health department on Tuesday confirmed that two more patients, including a young man, died of dengue fever at a private hospital located on Stadium Road during the last 24 hours.

With two more deaths, a total of four patients had lost their lives during a short span of one week due to dengue fever.

The focal person of the dengue surveillance cell of the Sindh health department, Dr Shakeel A. Mullick, told Dawn that 86-year-old Ms Khatija and 24-year-old Unaib died of dengue.

?An official of the private hospital informed me over phone that the two patients, who had tested positive for dengue fever, died on Monday evening at the hospital,? said Dr Mullick.

When contacted, an administrator of the private hospital refused to share any relevant information with Dawn.

According to Dr Mullick, the private hospital had also verbally told him that five new patients had been tested positive for the mosquito-borne diseases on Tuesday.

The dengue surveillance cell had confirmed the death of two dengue positive patients in the city on Friday last. Twenty-year-old Rehan died at the Patel Hospital on Sept 21, while 19-year-old Faheem Khan died on Sept 23 at the Mamji Hospital.

A source in the health department said that the government and private hospitals across the province had already been instructed not to hide the dengue cases from authorities and report them as soon as they came across such suspected or confirmed cases. ?Those hospitals which fail to report the cases on time would be liable to official actions,? the source added.

In the meantime, the dengue surveillance cell declared that 11 new patients suspected of suffering from dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in the city during the last 24 hours.

During the year so far, 457 patients suspected of having dengue fever were notified and 294 of them (64 per cent) had been tested positive.

In all, 37 new and old dengue confirmed or suspected patients were still admitted at 11 government and private hospitals in the city, including the Remedial Hospital (8 patients), the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (four patients), the Karachi Adventists Hospital (five patients), the Dr Ziauddin Hospital (six), the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (three), the Aga Khan University Hospital (three patients).

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/elderly-woman%2C-young-man-die-of-dengue-fever-990

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Re: Pakistan: 2010 Dengue cases - 4 fatalities this week

KARACHI: A dengue fever patient died at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Thursday, bringing the total death toll to five in 10 days.

Dengue Surveillance Cell Coordinator Dr Shakil Malik said the patient Rustam, 22, a resident of Qasba Colony Orangi Town was brought to the hospital on Wednesday.

He was the third dengue victim within three days.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C10%5C01%5Cstory_1-10-2010_pg12_6

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Pakistan: 2010 Dengue cases - 4 fatalities this week

Sunday, October 10, 2010

50 more dengue patients hospitalised

KARACHI: Fifty new dengue patients have been admitted to different hospitals in the last 24 hours, raising the number of hospitalised dengue patients to 121, Dengue Surveillance Cell in-charge Dr Shakil Malik said on Saturday. He said 1,809 patients with dengue symptoms and high fever have reported in different hospitals during the current year, 881 of whom were found dengue positive. Ninety percent of the patients were discharged after treatment, he added. ppi

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C10%5C10%5Cstory_10-10-2010_pg7_12

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Over 500 cases of Dengue confirmed: Health Secretary


ISLAMABAD: At least 533 confirmed cases of Dengue fever have been reported in Pakistan, among which five patients have died due to the illness.



Talking to DawnNews, Federal Secretary Health, Khushnood Ahmed Lashari confirmed the figures and said that Sindh has reported the highest number of Dengue cases, which are more than 500. The five deaths due to the fever have also occurred in Sindh.



The health secretary also said that 16 positive cases of Dengue have been reported in Islamabad but no deaths have been reported as yet.



The Congo virus has also claimed three lives across Pakistan this year. ? DawnNews

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The epidemic that wasn't
Sehrish Wasif


ISLAMABAD: Health institutes are giving conflicting reports about the number of patients diagnosed with dengue fever in the country.

While National Institute of Health (NIH), the primary institute for testing blood samples, says no patient has yet tested positive for the disease, while ministry of health officials and doctors at government-run hospitals tell a different story.

They say scores of patients have been diagnosed with dengue and that too by NIH.

These conflicting reports, at the very least, point to a lack of coordination between government health institutions.

?We receive blood samples from all over the country, but so far, no one has been diagnosed with the disease,? claimed Dr Jaleel Kamran of Epidemic Investigation Cell at NIH on Saturday.

However Dr Rashid Jooma, Director General Ministry of Health, denied NIH?s claims.

He said 2,000 patients suspected of suffering dengue fever had been reported from across the country, out of which 1,000 had tested positive.

?Almost all of the cases reported positive for dengue were tested by NIH,? he added.

?All test samples of suspected dengue fever patients coming to hospital were sent to NIH for tests,? Dr Mehmood Jamal concurred, who is the Executive Director of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). He said that over the past 24 hours, the hospital had received 20 such patients, including a senior politician. He said that of these 20, six were declared positive by NIH.

Dr Javed Hayat, In-charge of the Infection Control Committee at Holy Family Hospital, said they had received 204 patients with symptoms indicative of dengue. Their blood samples were sent to NIH and results for 41 came back positive for the virus.

Dr Asif Mir, Medical Superintendent at Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi, said that as many as 40 patients suspected of being infected with the virus had been brought to the hospital. He said the hospital took blood samples of the patients and sent them to NIH for tests. ?NIH declared two patients positive for the virus.?

Dr Sher Ali, Medical Superintendent at Divisional Headquarter (DHQ) Rawalpindi, and Dr Sharif Astori, spokesperson for the Polyclinic Hospital, also had similar claims. Dr Ali claimed that during the past week, 10 patients suspected of dengue came to the hospital. Four of them were tested positive for the virus by NIH.

Dr Astori of Polyclinic Hospital said they had received 10 suspected dengue patients in the past seven days, of which NIH diagnosed six patients with the disease. Talking to the Express Tribune, Head of Pathology Department Pims, Professor Dr Anwarul Haq, said the hospital had been requested to provide testing kits. This will help diagnose dengue patients in a shorter duration so that they can be given timely treatment.

The doctor said the hospital is also facing shortage of platelets due to the large number of patients suspected of the disease coming in.

?We normally request the patient?s attendant to donate blood but even then, at times, the blood becomes difficult to arrange,? she said.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2010.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/63740/the-epidemic-that-wasnt/

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Six more die of dengue fever

ARACHI: Six people died of the deadly dengue virus in the city during last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 12. Provincial Dengue Surveillance Cell head Dr Shakeel Malik said five people died of dengue in September while seven fell victim to the disease in October. Six deaths were reported from the Aga Khan Hospital while six in other hospitals of the province including seven men and five women, he added. Dozens of people with symptoms of dengue and high fever are being reported daily from government and private hospitals, however, the provincial and federal governments seem the least concerned to take any precautionary measures.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010/10/17/story_17-10-2010_pg12_8

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Dengue virus confirmed in 20 patients

LAHORE: The Punjab Health Department (IPH) said that the Bacteriologist Lab has confirmed active dengue virus in 20 patients while non-active virus has been reported in 24 patients during the last 24 hours. According to a spokesman on Saturday, all these patients belong to Lahore, whereas no new dengue patient had been reported from any other city of the province during the last 24 hours. The Bacteriologist Laboratory and IPH Lahore has confirmed active dengue virus in blood samples of nine patients from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, one from Mayo Hospital, one from Services Hospital, one from Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital, two samples referred from EDO Health Lahore while the remaining blood samples were referred from different private clinics. As many as 110 dengue patients had been reported during the last 10 months of the current year while satisfactory arrangements had been made in all government hospitals for the treatment of dengue patients and all facilities were being provided free of cost. The IPH advised people that they should remove all stagnant water from flower pots, old tyres, plastic bottles and other things lying unattended on the roofs which are the ideal places for the growth of dengue mosquitoes.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010/10/17/story_17-10-2010_pg13_8

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

45 new dengue cases reported in Lahore

Staff Report

LAHORE: A spokesman of the Punjab Health Department has said on Monday that 45 new cases of dengue fever had been reported in Lahore during the last 24 hours, raising the total number of such cases in the city to 161, and 215 in Punjab.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C10%5C19%5Cstory_19-10-2010_pg13_3

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Four dead, 2,000 affected by dengue in Pakistan
Saturday, October 23, 2010 7:02:54 AM by IANS
By Awais Saleem
Islamabad, Oct 23 (IANS) More than 2,000 people are suffering from dengue fever in Pakistan?s Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces and at least four patients have died in the past few days, health authorities said Saturday.

On Saturday, 152 new patients were admitted to hospitals in Karachi while more than 200 have been admitted in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Multan and Lahore. According to the figures of the National Institute of Health, ?tests were conducted on as many as 3,853 suspected patients and dengue virus was detected in 1,841 of these over the weekend?.

continues at; http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/...100448650.html

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Dengue kills another 3 in Khi



Updated at: 0500 PST, Sunday, October 24, 2010
KARACHI: Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, is on the rise and claiming more lives.

Karachi: Three more dengue patient died today taking the toll to 15 in 2010 only, while 86 more admitted to the hospitals in the last 24 hours.

Lahore: At least 130 patients have been confirmed to be infected with the virus in last 24 hours, and one each in Okara and Sialkot. The number of patients in Punjab has reached to 735 from which 627 were from Lahore.

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/latest-news/3569.htm

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Number of Dengue patients exceeds 3000
Submitted 2 hrs 25 mins ago

The number of patients suffering from Dengue fever has reached to 3395 and has turned into an epidemic in Sindh. According to special report, more than 240 Dengue patients have been admitted to different hospitals of Sindh and number of the patients has reached at 3395. At least 24 people have died of Dengue fever.
The dengue virus has been confirmed in 1810 patients in the province. The patients have to face difficulty in treatment, as there is shortage of platelets kits in the hospitals.
According to Dengue surveillance cell, despite the directions of Sindh government the private hospitals are not providing data of dengue patients.
According to sources of ministry of Health there are 1000 patients of dengue fever in Punjab, 430 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, 150 in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and 5 in Azad Kashmir.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/30-Oct-2010/Number-of-Dengue-patients-exceeds-3000

6 doctors affected by dengue in Chakwal
Submitted 2 hrs 23 mins ago

At least six doctors have been affected by dengue fever in Chakwal. The affected doctors have been admitted to different hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

continues at; http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-ne...gue-in-Chakwal

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Three more die in Pakistan as Dengue on rise
Submitted 4 hrs 23 mins ago

Dengue hemorrhagic fever continued to haunt people across the country as three more patients died of the disease in Kotli, Azad Kashmir, a private TV reported on Sunday.
The count of Dentue patiens in Sindh has soared to near 4000 and 17 deaths have been reported in Karachi.
The tally of infected people also on rise in Lahore. Soaring number of patients at government and private hospitals in the city has created scarcity of platelet kits.
In Hazara region eight cases of Congo virus have been reported admitted at Ayub Hospital in Abbotabad.
Two patients of Dengue fever were died in Mianwali and Ghotki

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/31-Oct-2010/Three-more-die-in-Pakistan-as-Dengue-on-rise

Dengue claims child’s life, people’s protest in Naushehro Feroze
Upadated on: 31 Oct 10 01:49 PM


Staff Report

NAUSHEHROFEROZE: Dengue fever claimed a four year old child’s life; people took out a rally, against the Sindh Health Department, to record their protest against the death of the child and lack of dengue’s treatment facilities in the area.

http://www.samaa.tv/News27294-Dengue_claims_childs_life_peoples_protest_in_Naushehro_Feroze.aspx

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Dengue death toll rises to 27
Monday November 01, 2010 (1233 PST)

LAHORE: Dengue fever has claimed, at least, 27 lives so far, according to figures given the National Institute of Health. The Punjab Health Department has claimed that dengue fever is on the decline in view of the drop in the number of dengue patients on Sunday as compared to the previous day.
According to a handout on Sunday, as per the report issued by the Health Department (Communicable Disease Department), a total of 157 patients of dengue, including 142 in Lahore alone, were confirmed to be under treatment in various government hospitals on Sunday.

The spokesman for the department claimed that the decline in dengue fever cases had been witnessed as 241 cases, including 194 in Lahore, were reported on the previous day. He said a total of 1,599 dengue patients had been discharged from the government hospitals after recovery and no dengue patient died in any government hospital. According to the report, during the last 24 hours, 142 cases of dengue fever had been reported to be under treatment in various government hospitals of Lahore. Furthermore, 15 cases of dengue fever had been reported from other districts of the province.

Specialists at the Communicable Disease Section of Health Department said the dengue fever cases were reducing and only 157 cases of dengue fever were reported on October 31 as compared to 241 cases reported on October 30. The Health Department spokesman said the secretary Health Punjab had arranged platelet kits from Islamabad and Karachi.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?233068

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More 13 dengue cases confirmed in Hyd

Updated at: 1935 PST, Tuesday, November 02, 2010
HYDERABAD: More 13 dengue fever cases came to the fore in Hyderabad during the last 12 hours, raising the number of total affected people in district to 131, Geo News reported Tuesday.

According to Health Department, at least 13 Dengue-suspected patients were admitted to Civil Hospital from various areas of the city and all the people have been confirmed positive.

According to Health Department, the total number of Dengue-afflicted patients mounted to 131 in district Hyderabad.

It should be mentioned here that two people have died of this disease during the last five days in Hyderabad.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/latest-news/4128.htm