Lack of awareness, late hospitalization blamed for dengue-related deaths: IEDCR

Lack of awareness, late hospitalization blamed for dengue-related deaths: IEDCR

Health experts today attributed the highest dengue-related deaths to lack of awareness and late hospitalization as death toll from the mosquito-borne disease has already crossed 300 marks.
"Dengue fatality rate is very high this year as people are not aware enough about the disease . . . late hospitalization is another reason for death caused by dengue," Director of The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Dr Tahmina Shirin told BSS.
"We are observing that people are not immediately going to doctors after being affected by dengue fever, which is eventually worsening conditions of patients," she added.