New symptoms in dengue, increasing risk of death

The number of dengue patients in the country every day and the panic among the common people is also increasing. Added to this are the new symptoms of dengue. The new symptoms seen in dengue patients this year are not similar to traditional dengue symptoms. These symptoms include diarrhea, pneumonia and headache. Due to these new symptoms, many patients are delaying coming to the hospital without realizing that they are infected with dengue. As a result, there is a risk of death due to delayed treatment. Many are dying after being hospitalized.

On Thursday (October 20), the Directorate General of Health Services reported the death of four people due to dengue. On this day, 896 people were admitted to the hospital due to dengue. With this, the number of patients admitted in various government and private hospitals in the country has reached 3 thousand 174 people. Apart from this, the number of dengue deaths has increased to 110 this year. Earlier on Wednesday, the Department of Health reported the death of seven people infected with dengue.

The dengue situation has suddenly worsened in the past few weeks. Infected patients are increasing in the hospital every day. As a result, the hospital authorities are struggling to provide treatment. Even by creating a separate ward for dengue patients, they are struggling to handle the pressure.

The 10th floor of the capital's Mugda General Hospital has been reserved only for dengue patients. The open area outside the ward also been declared as Dengue dedicated war. But still, many of the hospitalized patients are receiving treatment from the floor without getting a bed.

Mugda General Hospital has a separate ward for children. Two rooms of this ward have been declared dengue ward. But still there are patients on the balcony outside the ward.

Meanwhile, the Department of Health said that most of the dengue victims this year are over 20 years old. But 40-50 years old are dying more. Still, 35 percent of the patients who died were children, that is, those under the age of 18. Many of the affected patients are taken to the hospital late, as a result most of them are dying within three days of admission. This year there are more deaths outside Dhaka. Besides, the mortality rate of women is higher than that of men.