Staff Reporter :
Two patients, including a college student, died of dengue while about 408 new patients were hospitalized on Saturday across the country.
A dengue-infected college student died on the way to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. The deceased was identified as Tarek, 18, son of Mahim Uddin from Shamnagar village of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia district and a student of Khalishakundi Degree College in Kushtia.
Kushtia Civil Surgeon Dr Rowshan Ara Tarek said that Tarek was admitted with dengue to Mirpur Upazila Health Complex on Friday and then shifted to Kushtia General Hospital as his condition deteriorated on Saturday morning.
But the doctors of Kushtia Hospital referred him to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital and he died on way to the hospital at 11 am.
Currently 72 dengue patients are taking treatment in the district, he said. In Barishal a woman died of dengue fever on Friday night.
Parvin Aktar, 36, wife of Faijul Haque hailing from Tetla village under Banaripara upazila of Barishal, breathed her last around 9:15pm on Friday at Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH), said Dr Bakir Hossain, Director of SBMCH.
She was admitted to the hospital on Friday morning after she was diagnosed with dengue fever, the official said.
With this, the death toll on account of dengue fever rose to nine at SBMCH, according to hospital sources.
A total of 408 dengue patients were admitted across Bangladesh in the last 24 hours with 135 in Dhaka and 273 in districts.
The Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in a press release issued on Saturday, said the number of patients currently undergoing treatment in government and private hospitals in the country was 2,252.
A total of 68 dengue patients died across Bangladesh from January 1 till September 21, according to their own data. However, the unofficial death toll is reportedly about 158, so far.
As many as 917 patients were currently receiving treatment in 41 government and private hospitals in Dhaka, whereas 1,335 people were undergoing treatment outside Dhaka, the DGHS data said.
Since January 1 till September 21, as many as 84,397 people have been affected by dengue.
Among those admitted, a total of 81,942 patients have been released from the hospitals and clinics after treatment.
