Dengue fever is killing people in Bangladesh. Deaths will not stop before December

Doctors noted that the majority of patients applied to health institutions only after their conditions worsened.

Mirza Golam Sarwar, Director of the state-owned Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in the capital Dhaka, told the Reuters news agency that 67 new hospitalizations were made in a single day and 279 dengue fever patients were treated in the institution.

Pointing out the critical condition of the patients, Sarwar said, "Many patients come to us in shock; their blood pressure sometimes drops immeasurably, and their oxygen levels decrease rapidly." he said.

Internal medicine specialist ABM Abdullah stated that delays in diagnosis and treatment, as well as contracting the virus more than once, triggered deaths.

Calling on patients to go to health centers as soon as symptoms appear and to destroy mosquito breeding grounds, Abdullah said, "Those who have had dengue fever before may face a much higher risk of severe disease when re-infected." he said.

Faisal Ferdous, 33, who lives in Dhaka, said he caught dengue fever for the third time at the beginning of this month, after 2017 and 2024.

Ferdous stated that he and his wife fell ill right after their five-year-old son stayed in the hospital as a companion due to a different illness.

Ferdous, who is currently recovering at home, said, "This time, both my wife and I had to be treated in the hospital." made his assessment.

Stating that every stage of the disease was challenging for them, Ferdous said, "Each seizure was very severe; when you have the disease many times, the anxiety that the situation will become serious increases exponentially." he said.

Health experts emphasized that the circulation of four different serotypes of the dengue fever virus increases the likelihood of severe disease.

Experts noted that a person infected with one of the serotypes may later be re-infected with another type, and this increases the risk of complications.

Although authorities keep the dengue vaccine on the evaluation table as a long-term measure, there is no vaccination program that can be implemented in Bangladesh yet.