Dhaka, October 28 (IANS). According to local media reports, four more people have died due to dengue in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning, taking the death toll from the disease to 273 so far in 2025.
Meanwhile, 1,041 more patients were hospitalized due to viral fever, taking the total number of infected patients in 2025 to 67,464. This information was given by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHC).
United News of Bangladesh (UNB) quoted DGHC as saying that Dhaka North City Corporation (230), Dhaka Division (206), Barishal Division (174), Dhaka South City Corporation (140), Chattogram Division (120), Khulna Division (49), Mymensingh Division (49), New dengue cases were reported in Rajshahi division (45), Rangpur division (19) and Sylhet division (9).
A total of 575 people died due to dengue in Bangladesh in 2024, while 1,705 people died in 2023.
On September 16, the DGHC issued new instructions for government hospitals to ensure treatment of dengue patients. According to the guidelines, all hospitals in Bangladesh will have to create dedicated wards for dengue treatment and form a specialized medical team. DGHC Director (Hospitals and Clinics) Abu Hussain Mohammad Mainul Ahsan issued this instruction.
The DGHC said hospitals will have to make special arrangements for dengue patients undergoing treatment, Bangladesh’s leading daily Dhaka Tribune reported. Hospitals have been asked to ensure facilities for NS-1 test, emergency care and adequate medicines for patients.
Patients being treated for dengue in hospitals should be kept in a designated ward or room and priority should be given to ICU support if needed. Apart from this, doctors and nurses have been given special responsibilities.
The directive calls for setting up a board of medicine, pediatrics and other specialist doctors to treat dengue and chikungunya patients. Under the supervision of this board, trained doctors, medical officers and resident doctors will take care of dengue and chikungunya patients.
According to the instructions, the same board and doctors will also treat the suspected patients coming to the OPD (outpatient department) of the hospitals.
It has also ordered hospital directors to send letters to city corporations or municipalities to conduct mosquito eradication and sanitization campaigns around the hospital premises. Besides this, a dengue coordination meeting should be organized in the hospitals under the chairmanship of the Director, Superintendent and Civil Surgeon every Saturday.
–IANS
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