First dengue case reported in Pindi

RAWALPINDI: First dengue case was reported in Rawalpindi on Wednesday after a teenage girl suffering from the fever was admitted to the Holy Family Hospital (HFH). 12-year-old Laiba Asghar was brought from a village in Kotli, Azad Kashmir. She was moved to the isolation ward after laboratory tests confirmed the fever.Doctors said that Laiba had been suffering from the fever for the past ten days and her gums were also bleeding.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2017.