Mumbai: A four-year-old woman from Saki Naka died on Monday whereas present process remedy for suspected measles. This can be the sixteenth dying within the metropolis suspected to be attributable to measles.

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the kid who was solely partially immunised, developed the signs of measles on December 6. On December 11, her situation worsened and she or he needed to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a civic hospital.

“Even with all the medical assistance provided, her condition kept deteriorating throughout Sunday. She passed away at around 6 am on Monday,” stated a BMC official. The reason for dying was respiratory failure because of the presence of bronchopneumonia and measles, he added.

Out of the 16 deaths, eight have been confirmed by means of lab assessments to be measles instances, whereas the lab reviews of the others are but to be obtained.

Currently, there are 61 outbreaks of viral an infection afflicting 18 of the 24 wards of BMC. Under the continued outbreak response immunisation (ORI) being undertaken by the civic physique, 14.7% of the kids between 9 months to five years of age have obtained the particular dose of measles vaccine whereas 30.8% of these between 6 months and 9 months have obtained the zero dose.