Dengue fever kills two more in Karachi, Faisalabad

Staff Report

KARACHI: Dengue fever has claimed another two lives in Karachi and Faisalabad, SAMAA reported Monday.

According to reports, a 27-year-old patient succumbed to the deadly virus at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital on Monday, bringing the dengue death toll 17.

Sindh’s Health Minister Dr. Saghir Ahmed has confirmed that 49 people have tested positive for dengue across Sindh.

During the last two months, 3,054 people were admitted to various hospitals across the country with dengue symptoms. Out of these, 213 patients are still under medical care.

Another patient also died after suffering from dengue in Faisalabad. This was the first dengue case in Faisalabad.

According to Health Department sources, a fumigation drive will be undertaken in the Dengue-hit affected area. SAMAA

Injection of genes can cure depression

Depression is the biggest problem of people around the world which has always been a matter of concern for the doctors as well but now its cure is possible in near future.
Medicines used for depression does not affect all the patients positively and at times their usage has some fatal side-effects and even sometimes the patient starts thinking about committing suicide.
According to a research conducted by Rockefeller University of the USA and Weill-Cornell medical center, injection of genes in brain can cure the disease of depression.

Attendants torture doctors in Jinnah Hospital Lahore, two held

Staff Report

LAHORE: Attendants of a patient tortured doctors at Jinnah Hospital when the patient’s condition became serious. Police held two men, SAMAA reported Sunday.

The emergency ward reopened after almost 13 hours.

Hospital sources said that patient, Mrs. Pervez, was brought to the emergency ward early in the morning, but her attendants scuffled with doctors when her condition became critical. Two doctors were injured.

Doctors stopped working in the ward, protesting against the attitude of the attendants.

A four-member committee was formed. Two men have been held and a case has been lodged at Garden Town police station. SAMAA

Doctors ignorance kills man in Badin

By Suleman Mandhro

BADIN: The ignorance of doctors at Civil Hospital killed a flood victim, SAMAA reported Thursday.

Rajab Mallah, 35, of village Ali Mohammad Mallah was in a flood relief camp. Mallah was brought to the hospital with high blood pressure but the doctors at Civil Hospital ignored his critical condition. SAMAA learnt that the head of the hospital referred Mallah to Hyderabad when his condition became serious. The hospital authorities denied providing an ambulance to the patient’s. relatives. Mallah died on the way to Hyderabad in a private vehicle.

The relatives of Mallah staged a sit-in in the city along with the body. SAMAA

Sleeping Beauty Syndrome

Sleeping beauty syndrome( kleine levin syndrome) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by recurring periods of excessive amounts of sleep and altered behavior. At the onset of an episode the patient becomes drowsy and sleeps for most of the day and night (hypersomnolence), waking only to eat or go to the bathroom. When awake, the patient’s whole demeanor is changed, often appearing “spacey” or childlike. When awake, they experience confusion, disorientation, complete lack of energy (lethargy), and lack of emotions (apathy). Individuals are not able to attend school or work or care for themselves. Most are bedridden, tired, and uncommunicative even when awake.

Syndrome is a disorder that is rarely found in the teenager people. The patients having this disease can sleep for 2 weeks continuously.

There are not so many people in the globe suffering from this disease. According to the report there are round about one thousand people suffering from this disorder. Doctors also told that there is not any medicine till yet invented to remove this disease. Doctors further say that the patient suffering from this disorder itself recovers from this disease.

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Sleeping Beauty Syndrome was first posted on February 10, 2010 at 12:10 pm.

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pennhurst State School and Hospital, The School and the Pennhurst State Hospital began in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1908. The purpose was to help people with mental and physical disabilities. Both adults and children were brought there Walking on campus. Most of them were sent by parents, some children were there alone after that, because parents never got to see them. They had a system for separating patients according to their mental level. Some were able to do their job on their own after treatment while others could not even feed and bathe on their own.

Patients in extreme conditions was suspended in cribs all day, where they were unable to move or turn around.
Patients need constant attention and was a very difficult task for doctors, but the most terrible scene came to see when the hospital became overcrowded by patients, in those days, the patient looks in a miserable condition. Some patients learned to capture the attention of staff with their faces spots that force them to clean them.
Pennhurst was closed in 1987 due to a case that was filed against him in 1977. District Judge Raymond J. Broderick, was the man who ordered the closure after he found that the school is violating the constitutional rights of the patient.

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Pennhurst State School and Hospital was first posted on November 7, 2009 at 3:15 pm.