New Delhi|HL
A 65-year-old man died of chikungunya at a hospital in Delhi.
“The patient named R Pandey died at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,his test for chikungunya done by RT-PCR method at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital came positive with high viral count,” as said by hospital authorities.
“He died at the hospital at 4 AM. The patient was brought here in a critical condition from Yashodhara Hospital in Ghaziabad on Saturday at 10:30 PM and admitted to ICU. The cause of the death was chikungunya with sepsis,” hospital authorities told PTI.
Incidentally, one suspected chikungunya death has also been reported at the AIIMS, but hospital authorities today said they have not yet confirmed it.
“We are yet to confirm if the death was due to chikungunya. We are trying to do so, but till then it is a suspected case,” AIIMS spokesperson Amit Gupta said.
According to reports, the “chikungunya death” at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences took place sometime in September and five persons have also “died of dengue” this month.
“The remaining five death cases too are also suspected to be due to dengue. We are trying to confirm them too,” Gupta said.
Chikungunya cases in the national capital has sharply risen to over 1,000 this season, marking a jump of nearly 90 per cent from its count last week.
According to a municipal report released today, at least 1,057 cases of this vector-borne disease have been recorded till September 10, however, hospitals in the city altogether are reporting much higher number.
Authorities at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said, Pandey was kept under the care of a senior specialist in the Department of Medicine and a team of doctors from the Internal Medicine-ICU.
