Abdur Rob, from Khulna’s Rupsha, started a frantic search for intravenous (IV) saline after his daughter, aged 13, was admitted to a local private hospital with dengue on Monday. 

The capital’s Mugda Medical College Hospital has been struggling to cope with the steep rise in the number of dengue patients over the last few weeks.

The spread of dengue across the country requires better public health preparedness

Two girls, including a student of Eden Women College, die of dengue fever in Dhaka.

After Antor Dutta, a 17-year-old college student, woke up with a fever on Tuesday morning, he was taken to Narsingdi Medical College Hospital. Doctors there gave him some medicines and advised him to take proper rest.