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The ongoing rise in diarrhoeal disease in Dhaka since the middle of March resulted in ICDDR,B putting up tents in its car parks and take on over 150 additional staff to cope with the extra patient load. Despite this extra capacity we have had to put up beds in the hospital corridors when we received over 1000 patients. This emergency is more prolonged than that of 2007 and that we have already treated more patients than in 2007.
Despite this ICDDR,B has turned no-one away and has yet to lose a patient from simple dehydration. Sadly, as in 2007, we have had many instances of patients arriving dead despite passing a number of clinical centres on the way.
Posted on: 29 April 2009
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