Delhi reports 1st malaria death in five years

Delhi | Thursday | 3rd December, 2020

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New Delhi: Delhi recorded its first death due to malaria in the last 5 years when a 6-year-old boy from Madanpur Khadar near Sarita Vihar died in September of the disease. The child had been running a high temperature and was admitted to Holy Family hospital on the morning of September 24 in a comatose condition. No one should die of malaria in today's time that too in a city like Delhi." "The 6-year-old boywas running a high temperature and his family admitted him to Holy Family hospital. However, he could not get proper care at the hospital otherwise there should not have been a death due to malaria..