A three-and-a-half-month-old baby girl has died of symptoms consistent with measles at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, raising the total number of child deaths at the health facility to 17 this year.
Meanwhile, 28 more children with such symptoms were admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours till 9:00am on Sunday.
With this, the total number of patients currently undergoing treatment in the hospital’s measles isolation ward has reached 84.
Due to a shortage of beds in the isolation ward, many patients are being treated on the floor and in hospital corridors.
Associate Professor Dr Md Golam Mawla, focal person of the hospital’s measles isolation ward, said the infant from Trishal upazila of Mymensingh had been admitted to the hospital on April 21 with measles symptoms.
She died on Saturday afternoon due to pneumonia and respiratory failure, he said.
According to the physician, from March 17 to Sunday morning, a total of 856 children with measles symptoms were admitted to the hospital.
Of them, 755 have been discharged after recovery, while 17 children have died.
In the last 24 hours alone, another 33 children were released from the hospital after recovery, he added.