Staff Reporter :
Diarrhoea situation is worsening day by day across the country.
Icddr,b sources said about 30,000 patients were admitted in the hospital since the second week of the March.
It also said that five diarrhoea patients died so far in the hospital while 25 others died on the way to the hospital.
In this situation, the health authorities on
Wednesday announced that it would inoculate 2.3 million Dhaka residents with cholera vaccine as a preventive measures of diarrhoea.
Directorate General of the Health Services (DGHS) said that the first dose of the vaccine will be administered in May and second shot will be in June.
“As a diarrhoea preventive measure the DGHS will inoculate about 2.30 million citizens of the capital city with Cholera vaccine,” DGHS Line Director (CDC) Dr Md Nazmul Islam said in a special virtual press briefing over the diarrhoea outbreak situation across the country on Wednesday.
Replying to a query, the DGHS Line Director said that they are still working with the overall scenario and process of the vaccination.
He, however, said that the diarrhoea inoculation programme will not require registration.
“We will inform the people after fixing vaccination date and centers. They can be inoculated after walking to the center,” Dr. Nazmul Islam said.
People of all ages accept children and pregnant women, will get the jab, he said.
The DGHS official said also, “The current diarrhoea outbreak is not any sudden problem. This outbreak also is not a new phenomena. The diarrhoea is a remaining problem in the country. We are working with the water management body about the issue,” the DGHS Line Director said.
He said that the DGHS has considered Jatrabari, Dakshin Khan, Mirpur, Sabujbagh and Mohammadpur areas to be diarrhoea hotspots in the capital.
People of those areas will get cholera vaccines in the first phase, he said.
The Line Director said that they are investigating the reasons of sudden prevalence of the diarrhoea.
“If the water supply by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority found problem, they will take necessary measures to remove that,” he said.
Meanwhile, ABM Khurshid Alam, Director General of the DGHS said, nothing but the peoples’ awareness can prevent the diarrhoea.
He said not only Icddr,b, every government hospital is ready to give medical supports to the diarrhoea patients.
