5,996 Confirmed Dengue Patients Visit FGPC Hospital

Federal Government Polyclinic (FGPC) hospital has provided free medical treatment to 5,996 confirmed dengue patients so far in prevailing disease season

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Nov, 2019 ) :Federal Government Polyclinic (FGPC) hospital has provided free medical treatment to 5,996 confirmed dengue patients so far in prevailing disease season.

According to spokesman, FGPC Dr Sharif Astori, as many as 11 patients were still admitted in the hospital and receiving medical treatment while many had been discharged on improving their health.

He said that so far seven dengue patients had lost their lives from the disease at the hospital. He said that 17,357 suspected dengue patients visited the hospital with disease like symptoms.

He said by taking special preventive measures, the citizens could avoid from carrying dengue virus and asked the citizens to properly dispose of solid waste and stop water storage practices at their residences to prevent any access to egg-laying female mosquitoes.

He said mosquitoes breed primarily in containers like earthenware jars, metal drums and concrete cisterns used for domestic water storage, as well as discarded plastic food containers, used automobile tyres and other items that collect rain water.

He said dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. He added mosquitoes generally acquire the virus while feeding on the blood of an infected person.

He said the virus circulated in the blood of infected humans for two to seven days, at approximately the same time as they suffered from fever. He added the clinical features of dengue fever varied according to the age of the patient.

Dr Astori said after virus incubation for eight to ten days, an infected mosquito was capable, during probing and blood feeding, of transmitting the virus to susceptible individuals for the rest of its life. He said dengue hemorrhagic fever was a potentially deadly complication that was characterized by high fever, hemorrhagic phenomena.

He said dengue was a mosquito-borne infection, which in recent years had become a major public health concern.