The Sindh health department has placed the total number of dengue cases in the province this year at 819, but figures compiled by three major Karachi hospitals and one public laboratory with its branches in Hyderabad point to an outbreak-like situation, with the actual number exceeding 12,000 in just six weeks, Dawn reported.

The government confirmed one dengue-related death in July, but independent data indicate that four patients in Hyderabad — a young girl, two men, and an elderly woman — and two in Karachi died after testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease.

As authorities remained silent over the wide gap between official and hospital data, a senior official of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) questioned the accuracy of government figures, saying they did not reflect th

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