Dengue claims 50th life.

RAWALPINDI -- The devastation from dengue mosquito continues as the virus has caused another death on Friday, pushing the death toll in twin cities to 50.

The latest victim was 65-year-old Gul Muhammad who was under treatment in Holy Family Hospital (HFH). Health authorities said that the victim, a resident of Islamabad, was brought to the hospital on Thursday. However he died during treatment and his body was handed over to his family.

Four people died of the hemorrhagic fever on Wednesday, and another patient had expired on Tuesday from the otherwise curable disease.

The hospital officials said they were receiving a large number of patients from neighboring Islamabad where fogging was not conducted extensively.

The uncontrollable dengue epidemic has created difficulties for the new Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Saifullah Dogar who was assigned the responsibility measures of ex-DC Mohammad Ali Randhawa fell ineffective against the dengue mosquitoes.

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Only two days ago, the officials had pinned hopes on the onset of winter and said that the dengue mosquito would die off naturally, however the assertion remained elusive because of extended summer season which is a possible effect of global warming.

Besides Muhammad, as much as 250 patients from federal capital and 127 from garrison town were brought to the hospitals over the past 24-hours after which the collective figure in twin cities has escalated to whooping 15,700.

Majority of the cases in Rawalpindi were reported from the worst-hit dengue area of Potohar Town while other several cases also emerged from different parts of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB).

To date, some 9,958 cases have been reported from Islamabad while other 5,686 emerged from Rawalpindi.

Subsequently, the Poly Clinic Hospital (PCH) Assistant Executive Director and Focal Person for Dengue Dr Abdul Wali Khan said that as many as 420 patients were brought to Polyclinic on suspicion of dengue virus of which 108 were found infected and added that two patients were in a critical condition.

The focal person told that as many as 16,101 patients came to PCH during the current season while 4,473 of them were found dengue-positive. Seven people have succumbed to dengue in the hospital, he added.

Further, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) Spokesperson Dr Waseem Khawaja said that more than 5,000 people were found infected with dengue at Pims and added...