A 21-year-old woman died of dengue at a hospital on Tuesday, two days after she gave birth to a boy.
The woman had tested positive for malaria during Durga Puja.
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Guriya Kumari Rajak was admitted to SSKM Hospital on Sunday. She gave birth to the boy the same day, an official of the hospital said.
The woman’s brother-in-law said her condition started deteriorating around 2am on Tuesday. She passed away in the afternoon.
The death certificate mentioned “cardio-respiratory failure in a case of complicated dengue with thrombo-cytopenia” as a cause of death.
Kolkata, as well as the rest of the state, has witnessed a number of dengue deaths this year.
Neither the health department nor the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has revealed the death count.