Chennai
Ten-year-old girl Santhiya, a resident of Harijan Colony in Pollachi was down with fever a week ago. She was admitted to a government hospital in Pollachi. As she did not recover, the girl was shifted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), where she died without responding to treatment.
In another incident, Swathy, 24, from Kattoor, was diagnosed with dengue but she died despite treatment. Similarly, Karuppusamy, 36, a textile worker from Avinashi in Tirupur district, died of dengue. In CMCH alone, the death toll due to dengue rose to 60, in the last four months.
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