Woman dies of dengue in Barishal

An aedes mosquito. Prothom Alo  File Photo
An aedes mosquito. Prothom Alo File Photo

A woman died of dengue at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal on Sunday morning, reports UNB.

Sadhona Rani, 45, a resident of Betagi upazila, was admitted to SBMCH on Saturday night with severe dengue fever.

“She died around 6:30am,” said the hospital director Bakir Hossain.

Bangladesh, like some other Southeast Asian countries, has been hit by a massive outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever this year. The large number of cases overwhelmed the country’s medical system.

But the situation has been improving gradually in recent weeks with relatively fewer new cases and deaths being reported every day.

Between 1 January and 28 September, some 87,263 people were hospitalised with dengue, most of them in Dhaka. Of them, some 85,323 had made full recovery.

At present, 1,709 patients, including 629 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals.

The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has received reports of 231 dengue-related deaths since January. It has reviewed 136 cases so far and confirmed 81 dengue-related deaths.