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On Tuesday, Santosh Kolte from Shivdarshan chowk, Parvati died of leptospirosis, taking the tally of leptospirosis deaths in the city to six since July.
Experts at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) have observed that consumption of alcohol was common in all six deaths. “All the six patients who succumbed to leptospirosis were chronic alcoholics. Ashok Sukale of Nana Peth was a chronic alcoholic who had a cardiorespiratory arrest due to leptospirosis in the first week of September,” said SGH medical superintendent Dr P S Pawar.
The other victims — handkerchief vendor Ravi Bagade from Parvati Darshan who died on July 16, Vikas Jadhav from Nana Peth who died at SGH in August, Shambu Mudliar from Pandu Laman Vasti of Yerawada who died of multiorgan dysfunction in July and Shankar Zalte from Mangalwar Peth who died in August, were all chronic alcoholics.
While six deaths have been reported from Pune city, one death of Sheela Jayabhaji was reported from Beed.
In addition, of the 17 malaria deaths since January, several are from Pune. In September alone, there have been three deaths— 25-year-old Savita Nitin Kamble of Aaple Ghar society, Chandannagar, 40-year-old Vijaya Digambar of Kondhwa and Sachin Mate of Ambegaon Budruk near Bharati Vidyapeeth, succumbed to plasmodium falciparum (PF) malaria.
In August, two deaths of malaria were reported from Dapodi and Yerawada. Of the 135 cases of malaria from January, there have been 17 deaths while of the total of 37 cases of leptospirosis, there have been seven deaths. “The high number of PF malaria cases as against cases of plasmodium vivax malaria is worrying,” said SGH senior medical resident medical officer Dr D D Shetty. “PF malaria can be fatal and can cause complications. Treatment may be rendered difficult by resistance to anti-malarial drugs and hence there is need to tackle the parasite load in the community,” he said.
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