Dengue claims life of yet another student

A college student has died of dengue fever in Gosairhat, Shariatpur on Sunday.

The deceased, Dadon Laskar, 25, from Machhuakhali of Idilpur union in Dadon upazila of the district worked as a hotel manager in Dhaka. He was a student of Gosairhat Government Shamsur Rahman University College.

According to his family, Dadon got fever on 15 August while in Dhaka and later he went to his village on 22 August. After getting admitted to the local upazila health complex he was diagnosed with the mosquito-borne fever.

Dadon was referred to Shariatpur Sadar Hospital as his condition deteriorated, said Ibrahim Khalil, upazila health complex resident physician. He died on the way to the hospital around 8:30pm.

“We're poor. My son had a job as a hotel manager," said the grieving father Jamal Hossain Laskar, "We didn't realise that he may die just from fever." Laskar came to Shariatpur from Dhaka when he was already affected by dengue, Shariatpur civil surgeon Khalilur Rahman said adding, 381 people were affected by dengue in the district. He claimed that things have improved with the number of patients decreasing.

With the latest death, the number of dead from dengue rose to four in the district.

Earlier, Barsha Akther, 28, a school teacher from Jajira, Italy immigrant Hafsa Lipy from Bhedorganj and Suraiya Akhter from Damuda also died of the fever.