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Bangladesh: Diarrhoea situation worsens

Ronan Kelly

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Diarrhoea situation worsens
Staff Correspondent

Cases of diarrhoea is on the rise in the capital with more than 400 patients taking treatment at the ICDDR,B every day for the last two weeks.

A total of 222 patients came to the centre from 1:00am to 12:00noon on Friday for treatment, according to the data of the institution.

The number was 559 and 481 in the two previous days, which remains below 300 in normal situation.

Most of the patients are from city's Rampura, Shonir Akhra, Jatrabari, Mohammadpur, Kalyanpur and Matuail areas.

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http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=197410
 
Re: Bangladesh: Diarrhoea situation worsens

In Brief: Diarrhoea cases up in Dhaka in first week of August

DHAKA, 8 August 2011 (IRIN) - Poor access to safe drinking water and higher temperatures have resulted in an upsurge in diarrhoea cases in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka. ?People are forced to drink from contaminated sources and this is a major cause for the increasing number of patients,? Azharul Islam Khan, a doctor at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) , told IRIN.

According to ICDDR,B, 3,396 cases were reported in the week ending 6 August - 50 percent more than in the same period last year.

?Given rising temperatures, this number of cases will likely rise,? warned ASM Alamgir, chief scientific officer for the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research.

About 80 percent of all reported cases last week involved children, the ICDDR,B said. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, nearly 51,000 children die of diarrhoea each year in Bangladesh.

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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93443
 
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