At least one more dengue patient died of dengue in the Barishal district in the past 24 hours till Thursday morning, taking the total official death toll to 24 across the country this year.
The deceased is a 35-year-old woman from Banaripara in Barishal.
The woman died while undergoing treatment at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in the district, an official of the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services told 抖阴精品.
In the past 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Thursday, 23 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country, taking the official hospital admission to 1,939 since January 1, said a DGHS press release.
A total of 14 people died of dengue in January, three in February, five in March and two in 18 days of April.
The DGHS data also showed that 1,055 people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne viral disease in January, 339 in February, 331 in March and 234 in 18 days of April.
Another devastating dengue outbreak may hit this year, which will be similar to, or even deadlier than the past year鈥檚 outbreak that took more lives than the aggregate deaths and sent more people to hospitals than the total counts of hospitalisation in the previous 23 years, if not mosquito breeding grounds are timely contained, health experts and government officials have warned.
Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3,21,179 people to hospitals in 2023 alone against 853 deaths and 2,44,246 patients鈥� hospitalisation between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data showed.