Islamabad, January 18 (IANS). Local media on Sunday, quoting data from three hospitals in Karachi and one hospital in Hyderabad, reported that a total of 103 people died due to mosquito-borne diseases in Pakistan’s Sindh province in 2025, out of which 23 people died due to malaria in a hospital in Karachi.
Pakistan: Last year, 103 people lost their lives due to dengue and malaria in Sindh, the condition of Karachi is the worst.
Figures from hospitals differ from those reported by the provincial health department, which claims 33 people have died due to dengue and malaria. According to data collected from four hospitals—Indus Hospital, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital and Research Center (SIDH&RC), and Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad/Jamshoro (LUH)—103 people died from mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported.
A total of 8,883 dengue cases were reported at Indus Hospital in 2025, resulting in 40 deaths. Dawn quoted sources as saying that 18 of these patients, who were brought to the hospital in critical condition, died in the emergency department. Additionally, 2,719 malaria patients were reported in hospital, of whom 23 died. Of these, six patients died in the emergency department of the hospital.
A total of 941 cases of mosquito-borne diseases were reported, which included 651 dengue cases and 290 malaria cases. The hospital reported 14 deaths from dengue fever, while no deaths from malaria were reported.
The media outlet could not gather comprehensive data from AKUH. However, sources said that at least six patients died due to dengue between January-October last year. According to Dawn report, SUH sources said that 25 people had died due to dengue fever in the hospital in 2025.
However, according to official data, 20,502 cases of dengue fever were reported in Sindh, including 33 deaths, and more than 90 percent of these cases were reported in Karachi. According to official data, a total of 283,140 cases of malaria were reported in Sindh, with no deaths.
Sources from these hospitals said that the government had no system to collect the data in a transparent manner. This was said citing the condition of hospitals and labs operating in Sindh. A large number of patients consulted general doctors who practice in small clinics, and many of them died at home, suggesting that the public health crisis seen in 2025 was much larger and more serious than had been shown.
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