'Increased dengue infection rate may cause national crisis'
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday acknowledged the dengue situation was deteriorating “alarmingly”.
Director general of health services Professor Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam told that in a news agency.
He warned that continued increase of the infection rate could expose Bangladesh to a national crisis. The pressure of dengue patients is mounting, if the trend continues our capacity will exhaust,”
Alam said in line with the official mandate his office was handling with the treatment issues but agencies entrusted with the task of preventing dengue carrying Aedes mosquitoes must enhance their campaign to halt phenomenon to prevent the crisis.
The DGHS chief’s comments came as the dengue so far infected 20,878 people and killed 106 of them since January.
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