Five more dengue patients died in 24 hours as of Tuesday morning and with this, the death toll in dengue has reached 182, which is the highest death recorded in a year in the country’s history.
Dengue is a major public health concern in the country for the last two decades. Hundreds of people have been dying from dengue since 2000.
UNB adds: During last 24 hours, 820 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The gradual increase in dengue infections has created panic among the residents of Dhaka city.
Hospitals are failing to cope with the pressure of dengue patients despite setting up new wards.
Doctors and health experts say that measures taken by the city corporations and other authorities are not proving to be effective. The publicity and drives carried out by the authorities to destroy larvae of Aedes mosquito, the carrier of the dengue virus, are appearing to be inadequate.
All the latest deaths were reported from Dhaka raising the death toll in the division to 109.
Of the new patients, 450 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 370 outside it, according to the DGHS. A total of 3,223 dengue patients, including 1,947 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
The directorate has recorded 44,802 dengue cases and 41, 397 recoveries so far this year. On Thursday, the country reported nine dengue deaths, the highest death toll from dengue in a day this year.
Dengue outbreaks in Bangladesh exceeded all previous records in 2019, mostly in the capital city of Dhaka. A total of 101,354 dengue cases with 179 dengue-related deaths were officially recorded.