A one-year-♚old boy has died of measles in Mumbai amid the outbreak of the viral infection in the city where 126 children have contracted the ▨disease so far this year, civic officials said on Tuesday.
The boy, from Null Bazar area, was undergoing treatment at the Brihanmum𓄧bai Municipal Corporation-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli since last week and died on Monday, a BMC official said.
According t🔯o doctors, "septicemia with acute renal failure with measles bronchopneumonia" was the cause of the 🐽child's death, the official said.
Some parts of Mumbai have witnessed an o🥀utbreak of measles. At least 99 children have been found infected with the viral disease since September and 126 since January this year, as per the civic body's bulletin.
The BMC has set up a special ward at the Kasturba Hospital for the treatment of th💟e children infected with measles.
As p🔯er its bulletin, 61 children were admitted to the Kasturba Hospital with measles-like symptoms between November 4 and 14. Twelve of them were hospitalised on M🧸onday, it said.
Civic officials hav𝔍e appealed to the parents to get children in the 9-16 age group vaccina൩ted against the disease.
"In measles, the child gets fever, col꧒d, cough and red rashes on the body. Complications from this disease can be seꦅrious in children who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated," a BMC release earlier said.
The Union Health Ministꩲry last week said it has deputed a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Mumbai to take stock of the upsurꦡge of measles cases in the city.
The team will assist the state hea🍒lth authorities in instituting public health measures 🃏and facilitate operationalisation of requisite control and containment measures, it had said.
