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Dengue Outbreak

Daily hospital admissions come down below thousand, 1st fatality reported in Ctg

Staff Correspondent
The number of dengue patients admitted to hospitals across the country in a day finally came down to 700 yesterday. The number of daily hospital admissions with the mosquito-borne viral disease was more than 1,000 since July 29.
According to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a total of 760 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals and clinics till 8am yesterday. The number was 1,025 on Friday.
However, the risk of increase in the number of patients is still there, as September and October have seen high prevalence of dengue cases in previous years, provided Aedes mosquitoes get favourable weather, experts said.
Kinkar Ghosh, epidemiologist of Dhaka Shishu Hospital, said if there is intermittent rain in September, there are chances of increase in the number of dengue cases. But if necessary measures are taken, the situation can be under control.
With the new cases, the total number of dengue patients rose to 70,196, according to DGHS data.
Meanwhile two dengue patients, including a woman, died yesterday -making the death toll 126.
However, official figure of deaths is 57.
Shilpi Akhter, 35, died yesterday noon at
Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).
According to KMCH, Shilpi, from Athalia village under Terokhada upazila in Khulna district, was admitted at KMCH on Friday afternoon.
Partha Protim Debnath, assistant registrar of of KMCH's medicine department told The Daily Star that Shilpi died of hemorrhage caused by dengue.
Atiar Rahman Sheikh, assistant civil surgeon of Khulna, told The Daily Star that seven people, including four women, died of dengue fever in Khulna. Of them, five died in Khulna Medical College Hospital.
In Chattogram, a dengue patient died early yesterday at a private hospital. This is the first case in Chattogram this year.
The deceased was identified as Badshah Mollah, 55, hailing from Salimpur of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram.
Suffering from fever for three days, Badshah, a C&F businessman in the port city, was admitted to Diabetic General Hospital Chattogram on August 21 as he was diagnosed with dengue, said Sajib Ahmed, brother-in-law of Badshah, adding that he was referred to Parkview Hospital in the city that night.
He had been undergoing treatment at the ICU of the hospital since then, said Sajib.
"Badshah was admitted to our hospital
with dengue shock syndrome," said Dr Mainul Hossain, in-charge of ICU, Parkview Hospital, adding, "His kidney and liver stopped functioning due to complication of dengue fever." He died around 5am, he said.
Contacted, Chattogram Civil Surgeon Azizur Rahman Siddique said the death of Badshah is the first fatality due to dengue in Chattogram.
A total of 20 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals in Chattogram in 24 hours till 1pm yesterday, he said, adding that with the newly admitted patients, the total number of dengue cases rose to 1,106 in Chattogram.