Three die, 1,197 hospitalised with dengue fever in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent
Three more people have died of dengue while 1,197 new 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 421 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Monday morning.
In addition, 281 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 36 in the Mymensingh Division, 140 in the Chattogram Division, 136 in the Khulna Division, 71 in the Rajshahi Division, 26 in the Rangpur Division, 82 in the Barishal Division, and four in the Sylhet Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 58,108 so far this year. A total of 280 people died among them.
As many as 3,970 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,928 in the capital and 2,042 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.
