United News of Bangladesh

A child undergoing treatment with measles-like symptoms at Rangpur Medical College Hospital has died. The deceased, identified as Zakir, aged 22 months, died at the hospital’s paediatric isolation ward around 8:00pm on Saturday, Dr ANM Tanvir Chowdhury, assistant professor of the paediatrics department at hospital, said on Sunday morning. According to hospital sources, Zakir, son of Sabuj Mia of Ulipur in Kurigram, was admitted to the hospital on the night of April 30 with measles-like symptoms. Meanwhile, sources at the office of the divisional health director said 49 new patients with symptoms consistent with measles were identified across the Rangpur division in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning. Of the newly identified patients, 30 were admitted to Dinajpur General Hospital and 19 to Rangpur Medical College Hospital, according to health officials.