Staff Reporter :
Two more died of dengue, including a student, in capital Dhaka and Jashore district on Saturday.
Besides, a total of 607 dengue patients have been admitted to different hospitals across Bangladesh in the last 24 hours.
Rubaiya Akhter, 11, a Class-VI student of Wahed Ali High School and daughter of Abdur Rashid of Koyra village in Shibalaya upazila of Manikganj, died of dengue fever on Friday night while being shifted to a private hospital in Uttara.
Rubaiya was first admitted to Manikganj District Hospital with dengue fever around 2:00pm on Friday. Later she was referred to Dhaka for better treatment, said superintendent of the hospital Dr Abdul Awal. She was then taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital.
However, failing to find any seat there, her guardians tried to take her to a private hospital in Uttara. But she died on way to the hospital around 8:30pm, said Yunus Ali, Rubaiya’s maternal uncle.
Mohiuddin Ahmed, headmaster of Wahed Ali High School, said Rubaiya was buried at her village following a namaz-e-janaza on the school premises around 10:00am on Saturday.
In Jashore, a man who received treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, for dengue lost his battle to the mosquito-borne disease at his residence in Chowgachha upazila on Saturday morning.
Swarupdah Union Parishad Chairman Sheikh Anwar Hossain said, Wadud was admitted to Chowgachha Upazila Health Complex with dengue fever on August 24. As doctors found his platelet level below 26,000 they referred him to Dhaka.
The deceased was identified Abdul Wadud, 45, a resident of Swarupdah union in the upazila.
He was then taken to Kurmitola General Hospital in the capital and discharged from the hospital after several days. Then he came back home but fell sick again and then was taken to Dhaka for the second time.
As his condition did not improve, he was taken back home where he died around 7:00am yesterday.
Since January, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) received information about 192 dengue-related deaths. So far, it has reviewed 96 cases and confirmed 57 dengue deaths.
However, the unofficial death toll is reported to be at 139, so far.
In the last 24 hrs dengue infected, 233 patients were admitted in Dhaka and 374 in districts outside Dhaka.
The Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room at 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 are 3,447.
As many as 1,719 patients are currently receiving treatment in 41 government and private hospitals in Dhaka, whereas 1,728 are undergoing treatment outside Dhaka, the DGHS data said.
Since January 1 till September 7, a total of 75,753 people have been affected by dengue.
Among those admitted, a total of 72,114 have been released from their respective hospitals and clinics after treatment.
