Staff Reporter :
The number of diarrhoea cases has increased in the city in recent weeks due to severe hit wave and shortage of pure drinking water, physicians said.
They said that gas and electricity supply crises only worsened the situation, as people in many places were unable to boil drinking water.
The International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) doctors said that on an average about 400 patients took admission every day over the last 15 days at the ICDDR,B Dhaka hospital.
A total of 522 diarrhoea patients were admitted in last 24 hours to the hospital, officials said.
According to an official statistics of ICDDR, B, a total of 450 diarrhoea patients were admitted on Saturday, 493 on Friday, 361 on Thursday and 364 on Wednesday.
“It is not an unusual scenario at this time,” said a duty doctor of the hospital told The New Nation yesterday.
“To the incidence of diarrhoea would come down with the fall in temperature” he assured.
The number of diarrhoea cases has increased in the city in recent weeks due to severe hit wave and shortage of pure drinking water, physicians said.
They said that gas and electricity supply crises only worsened the situation, as people in many places were unable to boil drinking water.
The International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) doctors said that on an average about 400 patients took admission every day over the last 15 days at the ICDDR,B Dhaka hospital.
A total of 522 diarrhoea patients were admitted in last 24 hours to the hospital, officials said.
According to an official statistics of ICDDR, B, a total of 450 diarrhoea patients were admitted on Saturday, 493 on Friday, 361 on Thursday and 364 on Wednesday.
“It is not an unusual scenario at this time,” said a duty doctor of the hospital told The New Nation yesterday.
“To the incidence of diarrhoea would come down with the fall in temperature” he assured.
