Seven die, 1,138 hospitalised with dengue fever in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent
Seven more people have died of dengue while 1,138 more patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 457 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Wednesday morning.
In addition, 180 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 37 in the Mymensingh Division, 154 in the Chattogram Division, 104 in the Khulna Division, 66 in the Rajshahi Division, 31 in the Rangpur Division, 104 in the Barishal Division, and five in the Sylhet Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 53,196 this year. A total of 264 people died among them.
As many as 3,831 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,866 in the capital and 1,965 outside Dhaka.
The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000.
Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.
