Response committees activated as dengue claims another life
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Concerns over dengue hemorrhagic fever grew further in Karachi after a young woman died of the fever at Liaquat National Hospital late on Tuesday night, health officials said, adding that the death toll from dengue has risen to 16 this year. “Kanwal, 28, was diagnosed with dengue fever and had been undergoing treatment for the mosquito-borne illness whose condition deteriorated last night. She was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but she could not survive,” a spokesman for the private hospital said. With 16 deaths due to the viral illness and emergence of hundreds of dengue cases on a daily basis in Karachi, Sindh Health Secretary Saeed Awan and Commissioner Karachi...