Managing Director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Taqsem A Khan today asked residents of the city to boil supplied water before drinking it.

The diarrhoea situation in Dhaka and nearby areas may remain unchanged for the next three weeks as the daily number of patients has remained stagnant around 1200-mark for the past week till Sunday, said Dr Baharul Alam, head of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) today (April 4, 2022).

With a heat wave sweeping across the country, several hundred diarrhoea patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country.

Interactive inforgraph of twelve common diseases of male and female