17 dengue patients die, 2,014 hospitalised in 24 hrs

Staff Reporter :
The country witnessed 17 more dengue deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll from this mosquito-borne disease to 1,272 this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

As per DGHS statement, about 2,014 were hospitalised with the viral fever during the period.

Of the new cases, 454 are undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka and 1,560 are undergoing treatment at various hospitals outside Dhaka.

And nearly 2,57,060 were infected, making this the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000.

According to DGHS data, 7,589 dengue patients were undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country.

A total of 2,48,199 patients have so far been released from hospitals across the country this year.

Hospitals, especially in Dhaka, are struggling to accommodate the large number of patients suffering high fever, joint pain, and vomiting, health officials said.

The government has taken initiatives to limit the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, they added.

Earlier, Dhaka saw 454 new cases and 10 deaths from the disease in this period amid the worst outbreak of the deadly virus, reports bdnews24.com.

The hospitals across Bangladesh were treating 7,589 patients for dengue fever in the morning, and 2,097 of them were in the capital.

After a record 79,598 dengue cases and 396 deaths from the disease in September, as many as 53,654 cases and 283 deaths have been recorded so far in October.

Experts have blamed a prolonged monsoon and rising temperature, along with a lack of effective measures to kill the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the known carrier of the virus, for the outbreak.