DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh is fighting a document outbreak of dengue fever, with specialists saying an absence of a coordinated response is inflicting extra deaths from the mosquito-transmitted illness.
The World Well being Group just lately warned that illnesses akin to dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever attributable to mosquito-borne viruses are spreading quicker and additional due to local weather change.
Thus far this yr, 778 individuals in Bangladesh have died and 157,172 have been contaminated, in response to the federal government’s Directorate Normal Well being Companies. The U.N. youngsters’s company says the precise numbers are larger as a result of many {cases} should not reported.
The earlier highest variety of deaths was in 2022, when 281 persons are reported to have died throughout the whole yr.
Dengue is widespread in tropical areas and causes excessive fevers, complications, nausea, vomiting, muscle ache and, in probably the most severe {cases}, inner bleeding that results in demise.
Mohammed Niatuzzaman, director of the state-run Mugda Medical School Hospital in Dhaka, mentioned Thursday that Bangladesh is struggling to deal with the outbreak due to an absence of a “sustainable coverage” and since many have no idea methods to deal with it.
Exterior Dhaka and different huge cities, medical professionals together with nurses want higher coaching in dealing with dengue {cases}, he mentioned.
He mentioned authorities ought to embody teams like metropolis companies and native governments within the combat in opposition to dengue, and researchers ought to research methods to put together for future outbreaks.
Some residents of Dhaka are sad with the authorities.
“Our home is in an space which is prone to dengue. It has the next amount of waste and rubbish. I am cautious and use a mosquito web. Regardless of that, my daughter caught dengue,” mentioned Zakir Hassain, a resident of Dhaka’s Basabo space.
“What is going to occur to those that are unaware? If the town company or ward commissioner took extra care and sprayed pesticides, then we may have prevented the dengue outbreak,” he mentioned.