Ministry: Five dengue deaths so far this year


  • Nation
  • Friday, 28 Jan 2005

PUTRAJAYA: Five patients have died of dengue fever while a young child is suspected to have also died from the fever since the beginning of this year, the Health Ministry’s disease control director Dr Ramlee Rahmat said. 

The most recent was the death of a 15-year-old girl from Beserah, Pahang, who died at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan on Monday. 

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