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Female doctor dies of dengue.

Female doctor dies of dengue

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Female doctor dies of dengue

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Bangladesh

The Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities on Tuesday confirmed that a female physician, Almina Dewan Mishu, 32, died of dengue at the hospital on the day.

She was a 39th batch Bangladesh Civil Service cadre officer appointed as a resident physician to the gynaecology department of the Bangladesh Institute of Child and Maternal Health at Matuail in the capital and also studying post-graduation at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.

Mishu, hailed from Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj, had been undergoing treatment at the DMCH intensive care unit since August 1.

At least 13 more people, including 11 in the capital, died of dengue and 2,742 others were hospitalised in the past 24 hours until Tuesday 8:00am, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

Including the latest, the mosquito-borne viral disease killed 340 people and compelled 72, 225 others to get admitted to hospitals across Bangladesh since January this year. The DGHS said that on Tuesday 9,463 dengue patients were undergoing treatment at private and public hospitals across the country, including 4,482 in the capital.

Among the infected people, 63.6 per cent are male and the rest are female.

According to the data, 566 dengue patients were hospitalised in January, 166 in February, 111 in March, 143 in April, 1,036 in May, 5,956 in June and 43,854 in July.

At least six people died of dengue in January, three in February, two in April, two in May, 34 in June and 204 in July.

No deaths were reported in March, according to the data.

In the past eight days of August, 20,393 people were hospitalised with dengue and 83 died of the disease across the country.

In the wake of the rising number of dengue patients, hospitals are struggling to accommodate the huge number of patients.