Four more die of dengue Patient hospitalisation declines
Four more people died of dengue in Dhaka, Jhenaidah and Rangpur on Tuesday though the rate of dengue patients hospitalisation has come down compared to the past few weeks.
With these four deaths, at least six people died of the disease in last two days after the government on Monday said that it had received reports of 173 suspected dengue deaths sending the death toll to 178.
Meanwhile, in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am Tuesday at least 1,299 new dengue patients were hospitalised across the country.
So far this year, at least 66,064 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals, as the dengue infections made a phenomenal rise this season in Bangladesh.
In the past 24 hours, at least 608 dengue patients were hospitalised in the capital and 691 in other parts of the country.
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Currently, 5,322 patients are being treated at different hospitals and clinics, according to the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Health Services.
Of them, 2,999 are receiving treatment in the capital and 2,323 in the districts.
At Dhaka Medical College Hospital, 18-year-old Md Zisan, 18, son of Billal Hossain from Joydebpur in Gazipur, died of the mosquito-borne disease Tuesday morning.
At the hospital, another dengue patient named Ritu Akter,20, wife of Ibrahim Mollah from Dakkhin Keraniganj, died at 7:45pm.
Inspector Bachchu Mia, DMCH police outpost in-charge, said that Zisan was admitted to the hospital on Monday with dengue fever. Ritu was referred to DMCH by the National Medical College Hospital where she was treated for a week.
He died at around 7:00am on Tuesday while under treatment at the hospital’s medicine department.
Zisan’s body was handed over to his relatives on completion of the legal procedure, added Bachchu Mia.
In Jhenaidah, 55-year-old Sufia Begum, wife of Abdur Rahim from Baniria in Kaliganj, died of dengue on Tuesday morning, confirmed Kaliganj upazila health and family welfare officer Hussain Safayet.
He said that Sufia was diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease at Kaliganj upazila health complex on Monday.
Sufia was admitted to the hospital with fever and headache on Monday and diagnostic tests found her infected with dengue, Hussain said.
She died at about 9:45am while undergoing treatment at the hospital, he added.
In Rangpur, 24-year-old Mahatab Uddin died of the fever at Rangpur Medical College Hospital early Tuesday, reports our Rangpur correspondent.
He was from Biral upazila of Dinajpur district.
RMCH associate professor of medicine Dr Asaduzzaman said that Mahatab got admitted to RMCH on August 18 after Dinajpur Medical College Hospital referred him there.
He was being treated at the ICU as his condition was critical. Later, he was shifted to the hospital’s dengue ward on Monday morning as his condition improved.
But he died at around 2:00am on Tuesday as his condition deteriorated suddenly.
At least three dengue patients died at RMCH this year.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
