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2011-09-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Another four go down fighting dengue
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 [Dawn] Four more patients, including a staff nurse and a police constable, died of dengue fever in the city on Wednesday.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
the number of dengue fever patients confirmed officially has touched 10,000 in Lahore after 459 new cases were
reported on Wednesday.
Reports said 17-year old Asma Kanwal of Kot Addu, staff nurse at the Lahore General Hospital, was assigned duty at the "dengue ward".
LGH Principal Prof Tariq Salahuddin said she suffered dengue fever some 10 days back when she was busy in serving patients at the dengue ward. She suddenly fainted and was immediately shifted to the ICU where she remained under treatment of senior doctors but to no avail. He said in a condolence meeting held at LGH on Wednesday, the hospital administration demanded that the government award Tamgha-i-Shujaat to Asma for sacrificing her life for a national cause.
He further said the hospital also stressed the government ensure financial assistance for the bereaved family.
Deployed at the Lytton Road cop shoppe, 26-year old constable Muhammad Fayyaz also died at the LGH. He was shifted to the health facility some days back and was diagnosed as dengue fever patient in the clinical reports.
A young woman, Irshad Bibi of Lohari Gate was tested positive for the dengue virus at Mayo Hospital. On Wednesday she died owing to decreasing platelet counts and bleeding while an elderly woman, Gulzar Bibi, also died at the same health facility owing to dengue fever.
A health department report said some 530 new dengue patients were reported in Punjab during the last 24 hours, of which 459 belonged to Lahore. The total number of dengue patients in the province has touched 11,584 whereas 10,244 relate to Lahore. 
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Posted by Fred 2011-09-30 00:00||
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Posted by Frank G 2011-09-30 08:46||
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