A total of four persons have so far died of the mosquito-borne dengue fever in Barishal with another patient dying of it at Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital.
The deceased, Md Mojibur Rahman Monju Molla, was brought to the hospital with fever and diarrhoea around 11:00pm on Thursday (Aug 8), said hospital director Dr Bakir Hossain. He died of the fever at 1:30 am on Friday (Aug 9).
According to the estimates given the doctor, three of the dengue deaths have occurred at the hospital while another woman has died of the fever at Gournadi Upazila Health Complex.
The number of dengue cases was rising in the district with 275 patients currently hospitalised there with the disease.
Most new patients have travelled to the district with the fever from Dhaka, said the patients.
