Nanjangud: A woman from Nanjangud, who was admitted to a private hospital in Mysuru for suspected Dengue fever, passed away at the Hospital yesterday.

The deceased woman has been identified as Nafisa Fathima (44), wife of Shafiq Ahmed and a resident of Housing Board Colony in Nanjangud. Shafiq owned an ‘Engineering Works’ shop on Nanjangud-Ooty Road. The couple have a son and two daughters.

It is reported that the couple, who was suffering from fever since a few days, was admitted to a private hospital at Udayagiri in Mysuru. As Shafiq had to take care of his business, he got himself discharged and left for Nanjangud.

Meanwhile, the doctors at the private hospital where Nafisa was admitted asked her relatives to admit her to St. John’s Hospital for advanced treatment and her relatives admitted her to St. John’s Hospital, where she breathed her last yesterday after failing to respond to the treatment.