Three more test positive for dengue from Pindi in a day

Rawalpindi:As many as three more patients have tested positive for dengue fever from Rawalpindi district in the last 24 hours taking the total number of confirmed patients so far registered from the district to 50.

Data collected by ‘The News’ on Tuesday has revealed that two individuals from Kallar Syedan have tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours while one from Potohar Town, peri-urban area. All the three newly confirmed patients have been undergoing treatment at the allied hospitals in town.

Data reveals that on Tuesday morning, a total of six confirmed patients of dengue fever were undergoing treatment at the public sector hospitals in the district including three at Holy Family Hospital and one each at Benazir Bhutto Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital and Wah General Hospital. Of 50 patients so far tested positive from the district, 44 have already been discharged from the hospitals after achieving cure. It is worth mentioning here that the situation is becoming alarming as the incidence of the infection is showing a continuous trend for over a week. In the last five days, a total of 11 individuals have tested positive for the infection.

Data collected by ‘The News’ has revealed that the confirmed cases of dengue fever are being reported from different areas, tehsils and towns of the district which is more alarming as confirmation of even a single dengue fever case from a locality proves the existence of ‘aedes aegypti’, the vector that causes dengue fever in the area.

To date, as many as 13 confirmed cases of dengue fever have been reported from Rawalpindi Cantonment Board areas, 11 from Potohar Town (peri-urban areas), eight from areas under jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi, five from Tehsil Gujjar Khan, four from Chaklala Cantonment Board areas, three from Taxila Cantonment, four from Kallar Syedan and one each from Kotli Sattian and Potohar Rural. Many health experts are of the view that if the situation is not controlled well in time, the population in the district may face a severe outbreak of the infection in the coming days as confirmed cases of the infection are being reported from a number of areas in the district.