Chikungunya patient lands in PIMS

The doctors said they were waiting for reports of 45-year-old Safeer Khan

ISLAMABAD: The capital braced itself for a Chikungunya epidemic as a patient coming from Karachi, where the disease has gone viral, checked into Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) with symptoms of the disease. The doctors, however, said they were waiting for reports of 45-year-old Safeer Khan, who was still under observation. Safeer, a resident of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) works in Karachi, where he had probably gotten infected. Chikungunya has gone viral in the port city. According to reports, the mosquito-borne viral fever has taken over the coastal belt of Karachi after its first outbreak in Malir district last year. Thousands of patients have flocked to the hospitals in the southern districts of the metropolis.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 6^th, 2017.