750 more dengue patients hospitalised across Bangladesh

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Not less than 750 extra dengue sufferers had been hospitalised up to now 24 hours until Tuesday morning throughout Bangladesh, taking the entire official hospitalisation to 32,716 since January.

Prior to now 24 hours until 8:00am on Tuesday, 494 dengue sufferers had been admitted to well being amenities in Dhaka metropolis and 256 somewhere else exterior the capital, mentioned a press launch of the Directorate Common of Well being Providers.

The mosquito-borne viral illness killed 118 since January, in response to official information. 

A complete of 16, 624 sufferers or about 51 per cent of this 12 months’s complete hospitalisation had been reported within the 25 days of October, displaying a pointy rising pattern in dengue infections.

This 12 months’s dengue hospitalisation and demise marked the second highest since 2000 when the federal government began conserving data of the mosquito-borne viral illness.  

Of the entire 118 deaths this 12 months, 69 died in Dhaka metropolis, one in Narsingdi, 36 in Chattogram, 5 in Barishal, 4 in Khulna and three in Mymensingh divisions.

Month-wise, one died in June, 9 in July, 11 in August, 34 in September and 63 in 25 days of October.

Excepting October, the variety of hospitalised dengue sufferers was 9,911 in September, adopted by 3,571 in August, 1,571 in July, 737 in June, 163 in Might, 23 in April, 20 every in February and March, and 126 in January, in response to the official information.

A complete of 23,082 sufferers or 70.55 per cent of this 12 months’s complete hospitalisation had been reported in Dhaka metropolis.

Not less than 3,416 dengue sufferers, together with 2,224 are present process remedy at 54 private and non-private hospitals within the capital, mentioned the DGHS press launch.