Dengue kills AIIMS staffer

janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: An AIIMS staffer who had been suffering from high fever, passed away at the premier institute this morning, in what is suspected to be a case of dengue death. Few days ago the son of a AIIMS technician also died due to dengue.
45-year-old Balwan, who lived in Najafgarh, worked as an office attendant at the Director’s office, was admitted in the hospital on September 3 with high fever and vomitting.On 5th September he was shifted in ICU and died today.
“He landed up in the hospital with Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) secondary to dengue and he died early in the morning today,” a senior AIIMS official said.
Recently, son of an AIIMS technician had died after suffering high fever, and members of the workers’s union at the premier campus, had allegedly that the cause was dengue.
On August 5, a 10-year-old Manipur native girl from south Delhi had died at the AIIMS after a week of high fever, becoming the first suspected death victim of the vector-borne disease, though the municipal corporations did not consider the case, as the ELISA test was not conducted on her.
According to official data, 1,259 cases of dengue have been reported in Delhi this year till September 5 with at least 428 cases in the first week of this month. Two dengue deaths have been officially reported, both victims being from north Delhi.