BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the dengue outbreak has turned epidemic in the country because of rampant corruption in the health sector.
"The government has awfully failed to prevent dengue due to its incompetence and corruption,” he said.
Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, the BNP leader also said the people all over Bangladesh are grappling with dengue fever amid the inaction of the Dhaka North and South City Corporations.
“The dengue situation has now reached epidemic proportions due to all-pervasive corruption in the health sector. Dengue epidemic has broken all previous records this year,” Fakhrul said.
He lamented that that deaths caused by dengue have long been becoming the main headlines in the media as an average of 20 people are dying every day.
The total number of dengue deaths and cases this year reached 716 and 1,45,335 respectively as of Saturday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Among the fatalitie and cases, 342 deaths and 71,976 cases were recorded in August alone.