The Health Ministry has taken adequate preparations for the treatment of the rising dengue patients, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday.
Around 500 beds out of 1000 beds in Dhaka's DNCC Hospital and 400 beds in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University’s (BSMMU)newly constructed field hospital have been prepared for dengue patients, said the minister.
He was speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a multi-purpose building on the occasion of the 59th birthday of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of the Father of the Nation, at the city’s Sheikh Russell Gastro Liver Hospital and Institute.
“The Health Ministry has no role in deteriorating the dengue situation. The health sector can provide treatment, but killing mosquitoes is not the health ministry’s job,” he said.
With two more deaths from dengue confirmed on Wednesday, the official death toll from the disease rose to 120.
During this period, 923 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever as cases keep rising, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
A total of 3,380 dengue patients, including 2,207 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.