Man dies of dengue in Ctg
A patient infected with dengue disease died at Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed, 30, of Tangail. Prof Sujat Paul, head of medicine of CMCH, confirmed the death.
Sayeed was admitted to CMCH on Thursday. He had dengue hemorrhagic syndrome, said Dr Taherul Islam, assistant registrar of medicine department of the hospital.
Sayeed, a foreman of a factory in the port city, went there from Tangail about a week ago.
Meanwhile, a total of 4,409 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the first six days of this month. September is considered a high risk period for dengue fever.
The number of dengue cases was 52,636 last month -- the highest in a single month ever.
Though 700-900 patients are being admitted every day to different hospitals since last week, the number of patients are going down gradually.
According to the data of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 75,146 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country till yesterday. Of whom, 3,337 are undergoing treatment.
A total of 793 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday, of whom 325 are in Dhaka and 468 outside.
The official number of deaths caused by dengue this year is 57, though the unofficial figure is well over twice of that.
The first outbreak of dengue was in 2000, when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
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