The report of DRU revealed that more than 351 dengue cases reported, after conducting 1679 tests on Tuesday. As many as 123 patients have been admitted in different hospitals across the province, while 85 dengue-affected patients were discharged after successful completion of their treatment. It was pertinent to mention here that a dengue patient died on Monday is identified as Abdullah Shah, son of, Mohammad Zaffar. He was 65 years old and was from Sufaid Dheri in Peshawar.
He suffered with fever and was tested dengue positive at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) on September 29 but could not recover. Only two days ago, two women died of dengue virus in the same Sufaid Dheri village. According to the DRU, 2094 patients suffering from fever were brought to different hospitals of which 469 were tested dengue positive.
Presently, 389 dengue patients are being treated in the hospitals; the majority of them are treated in the three tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar KTH, Lady Reading Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex. Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to give Rs 500,000 as compensation to the family members of those died of dengue fever in the province, it is learnt.
According to sources, the provincial government has sought details from the relevant quarters about the people died due to deadly virus. Besides, committees have been constituted on district level which would collect data and provide the same to the provincial government. According to the official figures, as many as 40 people have died so far in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to dengue fever and majority of them belonged to the provincial metropolis.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017