The number of diarrhoea patients increased at hospitals across the country in last few days with rising temperature.
Physicians said due to hot weather and short supply of pure drinking water, people were suffering from diarrhoea.
Gas and power crises also worsened the situation, they said, as many people at places cannot boil water due to gas crisis.
The health control room said that around 500 people had been affected with diarrhoea in last 24 hours in some 16 districts.
Medical officer at the health control room Noor Faisal Ahmed on Thursday said in last 24 hours 449 patients were admitted to hospitals in Kishoreganj, Pabna, Narail, Jessore, Gazipur, Naogaon, Bogra, Joypurhat, Munshiganj, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Narayanganj, Brahmanbaria and Lalmonirhat.
On Wednesday 487 patients were admitted to the hospitals in 16 districts.
The officials at the control room said the record showed that a large number of patients were admitted at the hospitals in the northern parts of the country.
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh officials said on an average they received over 350 patients every day.
On Friday till 3:00pm ICDDR,B received 195 patients, said the officials of hospital.
On Thursday, they received 353 patients while on Wednesday 315 and on Tuesday 301.
However, Pradip K Bardhan, head of special care unit at ICDDR,B said that the figure was lower than the figure of March last year.
‘The figure at our hospital in Dhaka is lower than that of last year, but it might happen because of hartal,’ he said.
‘It is not an unusual scenario. Generally, diarrhoeal patients increases in March,’ he said.
ICDDR,B records showed that in the last week of March last year an average 700 to 800 patients were admitted to the 500-bed ICDDR,B hospital. In 2010 the figure had crossed 900.
The ICDDR,B experts pointed out that the number of people increased day by day as the water distribution system of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority did not improve.
They said the water supply is seriously inadequate to meet the demand of the growing number of people in the city.
People have to drink unsafe water, which is the main reason for the rise of diarrhoea, said the physicians.
Pradip K Bardhan said that treatment for diarrhoea was very easy. ‘So we ask patients not to come from outside districts to our Dhaka hospital as many patients die on the way.’
Doctors at ICDDR,B hospital advised patients to take more oral saline at the initial stage.
They prescribed immediate hospitalisation of diarrhoea patients as soon as their condition deteriorated.
All diarrhoea patients, including children, should be given normal food and saline and water should be boiled for more than 10 minutes to make it safe for drinking, they said. (Source)
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