Dengue takes another child's life

Bangladeshi medical assistants tend to patients suffering from dengue fever at the Mugda Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka on 8 August 2019. Photo: AFP
Bangladeshi medical assistants tend to patients suffering from dengue fever at the Mugda Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka on 8 August 2019. Photo: AFP

A child died of dengue fever in the capital’s Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.

The director of the hospital, Uttam Kumar Barua, told Prothom Alo that the deceased Samia, 8, of Taltola got admitted to the hospital on 10 August in a critical condition.

She died around 6:30am today, Uttam Kumar added.