LAHORE, 22. september, 2011 (IRIN) – Et udbrud af dengue feber har dræbt over 20 og smittet flere tusinde i løbet af de sidste to måneder.
Smitten har spredt sig til Pakistans mest befolkede stat, Punjabprovinsen, og specielt til Lahore, beretter sundhedsarbejdere.
According to Muhammad Razzaq, director of Communicable Disease Control in the Punjab government, 6,666 cases had been reported in the two months up to 19 September. “Of these, 5,900 cases are in Lahore while the rest are from districts such as Faisalabad and Multan,” he told IRIN.
Since the outbreak started, 23 people have died of the disease. Some media reports put the death toll significantly higher. There have also been reports of dengue in Sindh Province, with the provincial Dengue Surveillance Cell reporting 138 cases this year, most of them in Karachi.
“The number of patients in government hospitals is 250,” Razzaq added.
“All others have either been discharged or were never admitted but given treatment in the outpatient department of hospitals.”
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