A feminine doctor died of infectious disease at a town hospital yesterday.
She is that the third patient to possess died of the sickness within the country since Jan.
Nigar Nahid Dipu, junior consultant of the radiology and imaging department at Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital in the capital’s Uttara, breathed her last at the Intensive Care Unit of Square Hospitals around 10:00am.
She was a student of 32nd batch of Mymensingh Medical College.
Dr Ashif Iqbal, a friend of Nigar, said she died from complications caused by dengue fever, which led to cardiac arrests.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a total of 2,277 people have been infected with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease, across the country since January.
Dr Aysha Akther, assistant director at the DGHS control room, said Nigar was admitted to Popular Hospital with high fever at 1:30am on Monday.
She was diagnosed with dengue shock syndrome and her platelet count was found to be 11,000 per cubic millimeter (cmm).
The count increased to 15,000 cmm on Tuesday morning, said Aysha quoting information from Popular and Square hospitals.
She aforementioned Nigar suffered asystole double at fashionable Hospital.
She was shifted to Square Hospitals on Tuesday morning.
She suffered a 3rd asystole before dying yesterday.
A normal thrombocyte count ranges from a hundred and fifty,000 to 450,000 platelets per microlitre of blood.
According to DGHS statistics, one93 individuals were infected with infectious disease in might and 1,671 a lot of in Gregorian calendar month.
The figures for the corresponding months last year were 52 and 295.
Experts say climate change effects, intermittent rain, changing pattern of weather and lack of cleanliness are the main reasons for this increase in dengue cases in the country.
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