A second case of dengue death was reported in the Capital on Thursday after a Delhi University professor succumbed to the vector-borne disease due to low blood platelet count.

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Dr Sanjay Kumar was admitted to Sunder Lal Jain Hospital late on Wednesday evening and his platelets dropped alarmingly later in the night. His family was advised to arrange platelets but he passed away on Thursday morning after his platelet count dropped to 10,000.

Ironically, the DU professor had updated his Facebook status on Tuesday, making a joke about his low platelet count.

His family members have stated that a number of people in the neighbourhood, some of whom include faculty members, are suffering from the disease too.

Apart from the hospital's seeming inability to cope with the dengue menace, the MCD too has received its share of the blame. Despite the large number of deaths in the Capital due to dengue, MCD records still show only one death related to dengue.

The Delhi civic body has recorded the death of 13-year-old Nitish Kumar, a resident of Safdarjung development area, who died of 'Dengue Shock Syndrome' on August 1, thirty six hours after he was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

Meanwhile, deaths related to dengue continue to occur in the Capital.

A 40-year-old man died of dengue at Lok Nayak Hospital in August.

The case was followed by that of a 13-year-old girl from Burari area last week who succumbed to dengue at the Hindu Rao Hospital.

So far, at least 288 fresh cases of dengue have been reported by the civic bodies of Delhi last week till September 23, taking the total count of people affected by the disease to 3,109. The number includes 1,465 Delhi residents and 1,644 people from neighbouring states.