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Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Monday, May 5, 2008 07:28 AM GMT+06:00 Metropolitan
Diarrhoeal Diseases - Number of patients on rise
Staff Correspondent
The number of the patients undergoing treatment for diarrhoeal
diseases shows sharp rise this week.
Around 1319 people sought treatment at different hospitals across the
country from Saturday morning to yesterday morning, according to the
control room of Directorate General of Health Services.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh
(ICDDR,B), the lone specialised hospital for diarrhoeal diseases in
the country, experienced 650 patients yesterday, which was 699 on
Saturday and 656 on Friday.
Since the last few weeks the number of patients with diarrhoea has
been increasing. Currently the average number of patients receiving
treatment every day at the ICDDR,B is 650 to 700. It was 500 to 600
three weeks ago, experts at ICDDR,B said.
Most of the patients are from Mirpur, Kafrul and Badda areas, they
said adding that the number of child and adult patients are almost
same.
The severity of diarrhoea is less than that of the previous year, but
this year the outbreak of diarrhoea commenced much earlier, said Dr
Shahadat Hossain, scientist and head of Longer Stay unit to The Daily
Star.
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