Woman dies of dengue in Khulna, 491 new patients hospitalised

A woman died of dengue in Khulna on Thursday night while 491 new patients hospitalised across the country in 24 hours until Thursday morning, reports UNB.

In Khulna, Rozina, 35, of Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore, succumbed to the mosquito-borne disease at Khulna Medical College Hospital around 9:40pm, said the hospital’s resident physician Shailendranath Biswas.

Rozina was admitted to the hospital with dengue around 4:00am on Thursday and died while undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit.

Of the new patients, 159 were hospitalised in Dhaka and 332 outside, shows daily dengue update from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

About 2,226 patients are currently undergoing treatment at hospitals across the country, it said.

Since the beginning of this year, some 83,481 people were hospitalised with dengue, most of them in Dhaka. Of them, 81,052 made full recovery.

Since January, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) received information about 203 dengue-related deaths. It has so far reviewed 116 cases and confirmed 68 dengue deaths.