11 of 12 students cleared of meningitis

PETALING JAYA: Of the 12 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) students warded for suspected meningitis at the Kajang Hospital to date, all have been discharged except one.

Mohamed Nawi Mohd Noor, 23, was referred to the hospital on Wednesday night after a blood test revealed that his haemoglobin count was low and he remained warded for further observation.

“He is clinically stable but further investigations are being carried out to ensure that the low blood count is not due to a meningitis infection,” said the university’s Health Centre assistant chief medical officer Dr Fauziah Adnan.

She said Mohamed Nawi, a final-year Education Faculty undergraduate, was being treated as a meningitis patient.

UPM put out a meningitis alert last week after the deaths of Loy Cheah Kee on June 27 and D. Thiygarajan on June 29, the latter from meningitis.

Their post-mortems revealed that Cheah Kee had died of acute pulmonary oedema while Thiyagarajan died of an infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitides.

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