City Desk :
Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of daily dengue hospitalisations this year, with 625 new patients admitted and two more fatalities in the past 24 hours.
On Wednesday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said the latest admissions brought the total number of hospitalisations to 36,096 this year, reports bdnews24.com.
The previous daily high this year was 580 hospitalisations on Sunday.
According to the health directorate bulletin, this year’s official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 139.
One of the dead, a two-year-old child, was under treatment at Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. The other, a 40-year-old woman, died at Islami Bank Hospital, also in the capital.
Deaths due to the Aedes mosquito-borne disease have varied sharply across months. July saw the highest toll with 41 deaths, followed by 39 in August.
Another 19 patients died in June, 10 in January, seven in April, three each in February and May, while no deaths were reported in March. September has seen 17 fatalities.
Hospitalisations have also spiked seasonally. July alone accounted for 10,684 admissions, the highest monthly figure this year, followed closely by August with 10,496.
Other monthly totals include 1,161 in January, 374 in February, 336 in March, 701 in April, 1,773 in May, and 5,951 in June. As many as 4,620 patients have been admitted in September already.
Of the 625 new patients in the past 24 hours, 222 were from the two Dhaka city corporation areas. Another 109 were from elsewhere in the Dhaka Division, 112 in Chattogram, 96 in Barishal, 37 in Rajshahi, 17 in Khulna, 15 in Mymensingh, 14 in Rangpur, and three in Sylhet.
At present, 1,821 dengue patients are receiving treatment in hospitals across the country. Of them, 655 are in Dhaka and 1,166 outside the capital.
The health directorate has tracked dengue cases since 2000. The worst outbreak came in 2023, when 321,179 patients were hospitalised and 1,705 died.
