Following instructions from the health ministry, a medical team, led by Md Jahangir Alam, a sub-assistant community medical officer from the upazila health complex, initiated its activities
The directives were issued one day after a case of HMPV virus was detected in the country
Amid the bustling corridors of Dhaka’s hospitals, an invisible danger wafts silently through the air -- drug-resistant bacteria.
At least one dengue patient died while 57 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.
All six radiotherapy machines of the NICRH have been out of order for 19 days, depriving over 200 cancer patients of their scheduled therapy every day.
The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has found the presence of reovirus for the first time in Bangladesh.
With the city hospitals struggling to accommodate a growing number of dengue patients, deaths from the viral fever are increasing at a higher rate compared to the previous years.
36 hospitals today did not provide their dengue reports which will be added the next day
It is the only hospital in the country that was declared by the government to be for dengue patients
With the new fatalities, the total number of deaths this year rose to 155
Bangladesh reported one more Covid-19-linked death and 109 fresh cases in 24 hours till this morning
The country has been grappling with an alarming surge in dengue-related fatalities this July, with 99 deaths already recorded within the first 19 days of the month.
With 19 deaths, the country today recorded the highest fatalities from dengue fever this year
Late hospital admissions and negligence in timely doctor visits are believed to be the reasons why patients aged between 18 and 40 are the worst affected age-group in the ongoing dengue outbreak, experts said.
Thirteen dengue patients died at different hospitals across the country during 24 hours till this morning, which is the record number of deaths in a single day due to the disease this year
