News Desk :
Bangladesh reported 103 new patients being hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hours until Friday morning.
With no fresh death, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease this year remained unchanged at 95, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of them 87 people died in Dhaka division alone, two each in Chattogram, Mymensingh and Khulna divisions and one each in Rajshahi and Barishal divisions. Among the new patients, 89 were undergoing treatment in hospitals in Dhaka while the remaining 14 cases were reported from outside the division. Some 705 patients diagnosed with dengue are receiving treatment in the country as of Friday, reports UNB.
Of them, 545 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 160 were listed outside Dhaka.
Since January, some 24,380 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with dengue in the country. So far, 23,580 dengue patients have left hospitals after recovery, said DGHS.
In September, the country recorded the highest number of 7,841 dengue cases of the current year with 23 deaths.
In October, the number of dengue cases came down to 5,604 with 22 deaths recorded.
Meanwhile, another 103 new dengue patients were hospitalized in the different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours. The information was obtained in a dengue-related statement sent from Health Emergency Operations Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Friday.
The statement said among the new 103 dengue patients, 89 were hospitalized in Dhaka hospitals and 14 were outside of Dhaka.
DGHS further said around 705 dengue patients are currently undergoing treatment in the country’s different government and private hospitals, of these, 545 are in Dhaka’s 46 government and private hospitals and 106 are hospitalized in other divisions.
It is to be noted that the total number of dengue patients from January 1 to November 5 this year is 24,380. At the same time, 23,580 people returned home after recovery. So far, 95 people died of dengue.
