Many hospitals in the city, including Dhaka Medical College Hospital, are struggling to provide treatment to the rising number of dengue patients due to the shortage of beds.
Highlights: Dengue patients can be treated at home at a cost of around Tk10,000, but this year, shock due to multiple variants of the virus, so, treating dengue patients at home is not possible in many cases. The cost of treating dengue at government hospitals often reaches Tk20,000-25,000 and in private hospitals the cost is much higher. The death toll from dengue in the