According to a District Health Office (DHO) report, a total of 7,242 cases have been recorded in the district. PHOTO: FILE
According to an official at the Saidu Teaching Hospital (STH), most of the critical patients had been referred to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) in Peshawar.
Tuesday’s casualties included Muhammad Malook, a resident of Malookabad who died at LRH, while a woman from the same area succumbed to the disease at home. Her identity could not be ascertained.
According to a District Health Office (DHO) report, a total of 7,242 cases have been recorded in the district. At present, 233 dengue patients are admitted to STH while 207 are being treated in private hospitals and 48 patients at Tehsil Headquarters Matta and Khawazakhela.
The DHO report states STH recorded 68 new cases while the official death toll remains at 25.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2013.
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