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TimesView It is unacceptable that a hospital will fail to ensure that a patient susceptible to infection will get dengue in an isolation ward. “She had been under treatment at the hospital for the past one month and never left the isolation ward. She was never taken out of the isolation ward since she was prone to infections during the course of treatment.On Wednesday, her family was informed that Mou had dengue. “Contrary to media reports, she could not have been transmitted with dengue from the hospital as she was in a room with ‘positive pressure’.” The family plans to lodge a complaint after Puja.The hospital said the woman died of dengue haemorrhagic shock in a ‘known case of refractory myelodysplastic syndrome’..