July records highest deaths, second highest hospitalization in Bangladesh
Bangladesh recorded the highest dengue deaths in the month of July and second highest hospitalisation in 23 years as a total of 204 people died and 43,854 others were hospitalised in the past month.
In 2022, November marked the highest 113 deaths when the country witnessed the highest 281 reported deaths in the year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services data.
In 2019 August, Bangladesh recorded the highest ever 52,636 dengue hospitalisation in a month as the country recorded the highest 1,01,354 hospitalisation in a year.
The DGHS started keeping records of dengue deaths and hospitalization since 2000.
The dengue hospitalization in July was 170 per cent higher than the same period in 2019.
Dengue hospitalization had been reported 28,429 and 62,382 respectively in 2021 and 2022.
According to the DGHS press release on Monday, Bangladesh recorded 2,694 more dengue hospitalization and four more deaths in the past 24 hours till Monday 8:00am raising the total number of dengue hospitalization to 51,832 and deaths to 251 since January this year.
Dengue compelled 9,386 patients to be admitted to different hospitals across the country, including 5,011 patients in the capital.
This year a total of 566 dengue patients were hospitalized in January, 166 in February, 111 in March, 143 in April, 1,036 in May and 5,956 in June this year.
At least six people died of dengue in January, three in February, two in April, two in May and 34 in June.
No deaths were reported in March, according to the data.
In the pre-monsoon Aedes Survey 2023 disseminated on July 4, the DGHS found larvae of Aedes mosquitoes in 43.53 per cent of multi-storey buildings, 21.31 per cent of independent houses and 18.21 per cent of construction sites.
Dengue patients in the capital as well as across the country are on the rise, and in the wake of rising dengue patients, the hospitals are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of patients.
Health minister Zahid Malique claimed that dengue situation was under control and soon it would ease.
He blamed rain and flood for the outbreak of dengue this year while addressing an event in Sunamganj on Sunday.
Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Monday declared that mosquito control drive would be extended till August 31 to control dengue situation.
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