DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is causing more deaths from the mosquito-transmitted disease.
So far this year, 778 people in Bangladesh have died and 157,172 have been infected, according to the government’s Directorate General Health Services.
The previous highest number of deaths was in 2022, when 281 people are reported to have died during the entire year.
Outside Dhaka and other big cities, medical professionals including nurses need better training in handling dengue cases, he said.
If the city corporation or ward commissioner took more care and sprayed insecticides, then we could have avoided the dengue outbreak,” he said.
Persons:
Mohammed Niatuzzaman, ”, Zakir Hassain
Organizations:
—, World Health Organization, government’s, General Health Services, Mugda Medical College Hospital
Locations:
DHAKA, Bangladesh, — Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka’s