Summary:
She breathed her last on September 1, due to respiratory failure which is common in dengue fever cases with thrombocytopenia. The dengue victim was a resident of Malad hailing from Uttar Pradesh. According to the mid-month data released by the Public Health Department on September 19, a 46-year-old female Malad resident died of dengue and leptospirosis killed a 37-year-old male resident from Andheri. As per the clinical history, the victim was suffering from fever, headache and body pain for four to five days. In 884 houses, 396 containers were inspected, of which two dengue mosquito breeding spots were detected and destroyed immediately,” said a health official from the Public Health Department..