Dengue takes alarming turn in Dhaka
City bodies more busy with awareness campaigns than containing mosquitoes
Tanzil Rahaman | Published: 23:36, Aug 02,2021 | Updated: 23:42, Aug 02,2021
The number of hospitalised dengue patients is increasing sharply in Bangladesh s capital Dhaka during the monsoon in the absence of effective measures of the city authorities to contain Aedes mosquitoes responsible for the viral disease.
City residents are worried over the dengue outbreak at a time when the country is facing the Covid crisis.
More than 96.79 per cent of the dengue patients hospitalised in the country this year is in Dhaka.
Among 3,182 people hospitalised with dengue since January, 3,080 patients are from Dhaka.
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4 city areas at risk of dengue
Says DGHS survey in 69 wards of Dhaka north, south city corporations
Four areas of the capital are at risk of dengue infection due to the presence of Aedes mosquitoes, which are carriers of the disease.
The areas are: Lalmatia and Iqbal Road under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Sayedabad and North Jatrabari of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), revealed a survey of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) published on Thursday.
National Malaria Elimination and Aedes Transmitted Disease Control Programme of the Communicable Disease Control unit of the DGHS conducted the survey from March 29 to April 7 at 70 sites of 69 wards of the two city corporations.
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