Karachi [ Pakistan ], October 19 (ANI) Amid an escalating health emergency in Sindh , discrepancies between official dengue data and figures from major hospitals have raised serious questions over Pakistan 's handling of disease surveillance, while the provincial health department reported only 819 dengue cases this year, data collected from three leading Karachi hospitals and a public-sector lab in Hyderabad point to more than 12,000 infections within just six weeks suggesting an outbreak far beyond official acknowledgment, as reported by Dawn.
According to Dawn, government records list just one dengue -related fatality since July. Yet, some independent medical sources stated that six deaths, four in Hyderabad and two in Karachi, were linked to the mosquito-borne disease. Des