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Another dies of dengue in Rajshahi

Unofficial death toll hits 138

Staff correspondent
One more person died from dengue yesterday at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Shapla Khatun, 23, from the district's Puthia upazila, died around 12:00pm, moments after doctors referred her to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, RMCH deputy director Saiftil Ferdous said.
He said that Shapla
suffered dengue shock syndrome and her lungs were not functioning well.
"She died as we were preparing to take her to the 1CU,” he said.
Her husband Hasibul Islam, an employee of a pulse mill, said, he married her barely a year ago.
After Shapla started running a fever, she was taken to Puthia Health Complex on September 3, where doctors referred her to RM CH that very day.
"Her condition deteriorated from Sunday," Hasibul said.
During the doctors' scheduled visit yesterday morning, she was referred to the ICU.
Two people, including Shapla, died of dengue in RMCH. The first patient was Abdul Malek, a mason from Chapainawabganj.
Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said a
total of 716 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, raising the tally of admitted patients to 77,230.
Of them, 73,942 were discharged from hospitals.
Of the 716 patients admitted in the last 24 hours, 416 were admitted in hospitals in the capital and rest outside Dhaka.
Since January, the government has received information about 197 dengue-related deaths. So far, it has reviewed 101 cases and confirmed 60 as deaths from dengue.
The unofficial number of deaths from dengue, however, is 138.
The number of dengue patients never exceeded 11,000 in the last 18 years since its outbreak in 2000.
It was 10,148 last year, while it crossed the 6,000 mark twice in the last 18 years: 6,232 in 2002 and 6,060
in 2016, according to a DGHS report.
The country saw 93 deaths in 2000, the year dengue outbreak hit the country for the first time. A total of 5,551 people had been infected that year.
Though the number of dengue patients have come down in the last several days, experts observed that there is still a chance that the number may increase, as the city saw rain over the last two days.
According to experts, dengue infections may increase in September and October if rain continues, creating suitable weather conditions for Aedes mosquitoes to breed.
Kinkar Ghosh, epidemiologist at Dhaka Shishu Hospital, said that after rain there are chances of an increase in dengue cases.
"But it will remain under control if proper steps are taken and the ongoing drive against Aedes mosquitoes continue," he said.