A total of 654 patients with diarrhoeal diseases sought treatment at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) at Mohakhali till 6:00pm yesterday.
The hospital authorities informed that the number might cross 850 by midnight. The number was 872 on Saturday.
Due to the rise of temperature and drinking of impure water people are suffering from diarrhoeal diseases, said the health experts of ICDDR,B.
They suggested people drink boiled water and avoid stale and street foods.
They also suggested giving oral saline along with normal foods to the diarrhoea patients.
But if the patients get severely dehydrated, he or she needs to be taken to the nearby hospital immediately, they added.