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Dengue patients higher in Rohingya camps than in rest of the country
A total of 39 people have died from dengue in the country so far this year.
Of them, 17 were from Cox’s Bazar, 17 from Dhaka, four from Barishal and one was from Chattogram.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 9,837 people have been infected with dengue across the country since yesterday (September 14, 2022). Of them, 7,801 are from the capital. The maximum number of people infected outside the capital is 898 in Cox’s Bazar and all of them are Bangladeshi citizens.
However, sources at the civil surgeon’s office in Cox’s Bazar said 12,419 people have so far been infected with dengue only in the district’s Rohingya camps this year and it claimed the lives of 24 Rohingyas.
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At the beginning of the dengue season, experts had hinted that the number of such patients may increase in Cox’s Bazar this year.
Entomologist Prof Kabirul Bashar, who was in a team of surveyors conducting a study on mosquitoes in Cox’s Bazar, told The Daily Star, “In May, we surveyed the Rohingya camps and found the abnormal presence of Aedes mosquitos. We had said then that dengue could become an epidemic in Cox’s Bazar this year.”
“The actual number of dengue patients in Cox’s Bazar is likely to be even higher,” he said.
Stating that there is not much initiative in Cox’s Bazar to kill Aedes mosquitoes, the entomologist said, “There should be a central plan at the state level to control Aedes mosquitoes. Otherwise, one after another districts will continue to turn into dengue hotspots.”
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