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Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
The letter further states that the corporation intensifies mosquito abatement programme within 300 yards of any patient's house based on the information provided by the DGHS control room. Also, the DSCC conducts search operations in that area. However, on analysing the list from the DGHS control room, the corporation has found many discrepancies. Hence, the […]
Mirzadi Sabrina said in her paper that the health department has already taken several initiatives to deal with the dengue situation. These steps include increasing surveillance, building capacity of health workers, updating dengue disease management guidelines, reviewing deaths and fixing dengue testing fees. The National Strategic Plan (2024-2030) for dengue prevention and control was to […]
MD Abul Foyez, former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services and former dean of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, affiliated with WHO in 1981. He has so far visited WHO headquarters 52 times at different times for various works. He has experience of working as an advisor and consultant on several committees of […]
From the beginning of the year, entomologists had warned that the dengue outbreak was going to be serious this year. Pre-monsoon surveys by DGHS revealed prevalence of Aedes mosquito in almost every area of Dhaka city. Nobody paid attention to that warning. Dhaka is the most densely populated city in the world as well as […]
Historical data shows that dengue deaths usually decline in October, but this time the scenario is quite different and there is no sign of relief. A total of 49,584 dengue patients have been hospitalized in the current month, resulting in an average daily hospitalization number of 2,361. Still, health officials have no specific explanation for […]
Additionally, according to the Health Directorate, a total of 2,350 people – 504 in Dhaka and 1,905 in the districts – have been hospitalized due to mosquito-borne viral fever during the 24-hour period. Of the fresh deaths, seven were recorded in the capital city, while the remaining one was reported from outside.
Additionally, a total of 2,555 people suffering from mosquito-borne viral fever have been hospitalized during this period, according to the Directorate General of Health (DGHS). Nine of the new deaths were reported from Dhaka, while the remaining four were from outside the capital. So far in the current year, a total of 228,779 people have […]
Nine people died due to dengue in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Friday, taking the death toll to 1,064. The new deaths took the death toll to 75 in the first six days of the current month. Additionally, a total of 1,800 people suffering from mosquito-borne viral fever have been hospitalized during […]
