At least one dengue patient died and 169 others were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours till Saturday morning.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, including the latest this year a total of 29 people died of the vector-born disease and 5,739 others were hospitalised.
The deceased is a woman aged between 36 and 40 years and hailed from Chattogram.
Of the hospitalised patients in the past 24 hours, 101 patients were admitted in Barishal, 28 in Chattogram, 19 in the Dhaka South City Corporation, 16 in the Dhaka North City Corporation and five in different districts of Dhaka.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Barishal reported that a 40-year-old woman Laily Begum, a resident of Kakrabunia area of Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali, died of dengue at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital on Saturday while undergoing treatment there.
SM Moniruzzaman, deputy director of the hospital, also said that 14 more people had been newly infected and admitted to the hospital in the past 24 hours.
According to the latest information, now 87 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at the SBMCH.
The vector-born disease dengue arises as a serious public health concern in the country over past several years.
A dengue outbreak was first officially reported in the country in 2000 when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were hospitalised, according to DGHS data. Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3, 21,179 others to hospitals in 2023 alone against 853 deaths and 2, 44,246 hospitalisation between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data showed.
Last year, the country witnessed a severe dengue outbreak that resulted in 575 deaths and 101,214 reported cases. A total of 100,040 patients recovered during the period.
