Reza Mahmud :
Deaths of children are on rise from dengue fever due to late admissions in hospitals, doctors said.
The physicians said, the children dengue patients used to come in eleventh hours when the doctors have very narrow time to take care.
Sources said about 354 children dengue patients have been taken admission in Dhaka Shishu Hospital this year.
Six children patients among them have been died so far in the hospital.
Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said about 35 patients were died so far in the country but they have no data of children or age based fatalities.
The physicians of the hospital said not only the number, the children dengue patients also come with warning signs this year.
“The children dengue patients are not give us time for taking proper care to them this year. Several of them have come to hospital in last hour and some of them died soon after taking admission,” Professor Dr. Shafi Ahmed, Director of the Shishu Hospital said on Sunday.
He said, most of the children dengue patients are coming to hospitals with cold fever, coughing, stomach ache, headache and breathing problems with such other symptoms.
The Director said, “If those children suffer with meningitis and leukemia with the dengue, then the fear of death to be increased seriously.”
He urged parents to go doctor, test and diagnosed soon after their children contaminated with fever.
Sources of the Shishu Hospital said, a nine-year old children name Ismail from the city’s Mohakhali, was admitted the hospital on night 11pm on August 19 after being seriously sick from dengue infection.
The child died at 12am that night though he was taken to ICU bed soon after his admission.
Physicians of the hospital said, the child patients did not gave them time enough to give him medical care.
Conditions of most of died children were like Ismail, physicians said.
“In case of delayed hospitalisation, the pulse of those children cannot get and breathing problems hiked, platelet rates also reduced and increase the fear of death,” physicians said.
When contacted, Professor Dr. M. Muzaherul Huq, former Advisor of the World Health Organisation told The New Nation on Sunday, “Most of the dengue deaths are late diagnosis and late start of proper treatment and management.”
He said, “We all know the rainy season is as well as at least 2-3 months are Dengue seasons. If we are prepared to combat or fight Dengue we are to start spraying larvicides just at the onset of rainy season.”
“People should see doctors for early diagnosis by screening patients with fever,” he said.
Officials from Dhaka Shishu Hospital said, about seven children were taken admission on the facility in the last 24 hours while about 17 children have been admitted in the previous period.
They said, there are 80 children dengue patients are under treatment in the hospital.
One of the physicians of the facility said, he never found more than 69 children under admission at a time in the hospital.
