The daily average hospitalisation of dengue patients in the first 13 days of the current month reached 400 which was recorded 165 in the same period of the past month, indicating a sharp increase in dengue patients.
In the first week of this month the number was average 327 indicating authorities鈥� inaction to control the vector during the monsoon.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, at least 5,200 people were hospitalised in the first 13 days of September and at least 20 of them died, including 196 hospitalisation in 24 hours until 8:00am on Friday.
In the past month of August, at least 27 people died and 6,521 were hospitalised with the disease across the country.
Of them, 13 people died and 2,149 were hospitalised in first 13 days.
The steady and speedy rise in dengue hospitalisation and death worried healthcare professionals and people.
Physicians said that people with high fever and other complexity were getting admitted to hospitals.
Most of the patients were admitted with symptoms including high fever, headache, pains in different parts of the body, said Mohammad聽 Rafiqul Islam, medicine professor at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.
He said that many patients were also getting admitted with other complications like diarrhoea and Jaundice.
The dengue situation this year, however, is better as deaths and hospitalisations in September this year are lower compared with the same period in the past year.
At least 14,214 people were hospitalised and 78 others died of the disease in the first six days of September 2023, setting a new record of dengue deaths and hospitalisation in the country.
Ibn Sina Medical College Hospital medicine associate professor M Kamruzzaman Mazumder said that a number of patients were getting admitted to the hospital from different districts as well.
He observed that many patients were getting worse within three to four days of dengue infection. The number of patients with other complications has increased.
He suggested that patients should not waste time at home as any delay in hospitalization would increase their complications and risk.
Entomologists observed that dengue patients were on the rise as the authorities remained inactive.
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine entomology department head professor Md Golam Sharower said that potential mosquito breeding ground would be available until November.
鈥業f the authorities do not take proper steps, the situation might worsen,鈥� he said.
National University entomologist GM Saifur Rahman said that dengue was yet to reach its peak but it will reach the peak soon.
Entomologists said that currently serotype-II dengue was responsible for most deaths and hospitalisation.
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Md Mahmudul Hasan said that they resumed their anti-mosquito drives after the recent political turmoil that disrupted their drives for a few days.
