The Directorate General of Health Services reported 15 deaths in the 24 hours till 8:00 am Tuesday, while the number of fresh cases during the period stood at 3,123. With the new cases, a total of 193,881 people have been hospitalized with dengue so far in the country.
However, public health experts claimed that the actual number of dengue patients is four to five times higher than the number of hospitalized patients. The situation has gone out of control and may get worse in the coming days.
Tehmina Shirin, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told Prothom Alo that intermittent rains and current weather conditions are favorable for mosquito breeding. Unless the breeding sites for mosquitoes are reduced, the situation will not improve.
From their past experience, they fear that the situation may peak in October, as it did in the same month last year.