At least eight people died of dengue and 1,017 others were hospitalised across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the death from dengue infection to 174 so far this year.
Among the eight 鈥� four male and four female 鈥� three died in Khulna and four in Dhaka south and one in Dhaka north city corporations, according to the Directorate General of Health Services data.聽聽
According to the DGHS data, both the case of deaths and hospitalisation are increasing. The total of hospitalisation from the mosquito-borne viral disease reached to 33,099 since January.
Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3,21,179 people to hospitals in 2023 alone against 853 deaths and 2,44,246 hospitalisation between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data showed.
A dengue outbreak was first officially reported in the country in 2000 when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were hospitalised, according to DGHS data.
Entomologists observed that dengue patients are on the rise largely due to the inactivity of the authorities concerned amid the ongoing monsoon.
Entomologists feared that dengue fatality might get pick in the late October or early November as rain till continued. The dengue season might prolong to November if the authorities did not gave proper attention.
