15 more dengue deaths, 2,944 cases in 24hrs

Staff Reporter :
Some 15 more deaths were reported from dengue in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 767 this year.

A total of 174 dengue patients have died in the last 13 days of the month of September.

Meanwhile, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Chief Health Officer Brigadier General AKM Shafiqur Rahman has accepted responsibility for not being able to take effective measures to control dengue as the dengue cases and deaths are increasing in the country every day.

There is no negligence in DNCC’s efforts to control dengue outbreak, he said at an event on Wednesday.

However, during the period, 2,944 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

Of the new patients, 823 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to DGHS.

A total of 9,988 dengue patients, including 4,137 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.

So far, the DGHS has recorded 157,172 dengue cases, 146,417 recoveries.

In the first two weeks of September, the Aedes mosquito-borne Dengue has claimed the lives of 174 people across the country.

A total of 33,336 cases were reported during the same period.