RAWALPINDI: Five more patients suspected of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) were brought to Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi on Thursday evening. The suspected patients include two women and three men.
Talking to the Express Tribune, Abdul Waheed, a staff member of the hospital’s isolation ward said the patients’ blood samples will be sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to be tested for Congo Fever virus on Friday.
He said 27 out of the 32 patients admitted to the ward had tested positive for the virus.
He said that blood samples of the three female staff members of the hospital who had earlier tested positive for CCHF, and were treated, have been sent to NIH again for verification. Their results are due on Friday, he added.
Dr Saima Naz, also a senior staff member of the hospital’s isolation ward said that five patients in the ward have tested positive of dengue fever, while blood samples of the remaining 21 patients suspected of dengue have been sent to NIH.
Majority of these patients belong to Chakwal and include two children, said Naz. She said strict measures were being taken in all hospital wards to prevent the disease from spreading.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2010.
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