40% died within two days of hospitalization.
29 children aged three to eight months died.
Among the children who died, 31 were boys and 29 were girls.
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48 children died in Dhaka. The remaining 12 children are outside Dhaka.
Measles is seen to kill very young children. A three-month-old, four-month-old baby also died. There is no difference in the number of male and female deaths. It turns out that 40 percent of children die within two days of arriving at the hospital.
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The figure was obtained by analyzing data on 60 child deaths from the Department of Health’s Management Information System (MIS).
The analysis of the data also revealed that the laboratory test confirmed that these children were infected with measles. However, it is not known whether any of the dead children were vaccinated.
According to the Integrated Control Center of the Department of Health in the last 24 hours (Monday 8 am to Tuesday 8 am), 6 people died of measles symptoms and 3 people died of confirmed measles, i.e. 9 people died in one day. In this regard, 356 people died with measles symptoms and 68 people died of confirmed measles from March 15 to yesterday Tuesday. Public health experts believe that these 424 deaths are due to measles.
For a long time, it was thought that very young children did not get measles. Babies are born with immunity to measles from the mother’s womb and after birth the mother’s breast milk also protects him from measles. However, this time after the outbreak of measles, it was reported that 19-day-old newborns and 24-day-old newborns were infected with measles.
A boy from Dhaka was admitted to the Universal Medical College Hospital in Mohakhali area of the capital on April 18. He died that day. The child was three months old. Three more such children died at the age of three months.
According to the data of the Department of Health, 29 children aged between three months and eight months have died. That is, almost half of the children who died were not vaccinated. Because, according to the previous rules, they were not old enough to get vaccinated.
21 children aged 9 to 15 months. Two children aged 16 months to 2 years died. Seven children died between the ages of two and five years. A girl child of Chandpur died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 9. The girl was 9 years old. MIS does not have the information whether these 31 children were vaccinated or not. Among the dead children are 31 boys and 29 girls.
How many days after hospital admission do children die—this information is not available for all children. The dates of death of the five children who died at Sherbangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Bangladesh Children’s Hospital and Institute and Padma General Hospital are given, but there is no date when they were admitted to those hospitals.
Date analysis shows that five children died on the day of admission. 9 children died within a day of admission. Another 9 children died within two days of admission. It appears that 24 children died in the first 48 hours after admission. This means that 40 percent of children die within the first two days after admission.
17 children died for 10 days or more. One child died 37 days after admission.
Most children died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital. 15 children died here. Among them, 11 children came from different districts outside Dhaka. Then more children died in infectious disease hospitals. 6 of the 10 children who died in this hospital came from different hospitals outside Dhaka. Enam Medical College Hospital in Savar had the highest number of child deaths among private hospitals. Six children died here.
A review of the death data of 60 children shows that 18 children are from Dhaka district. 30 children came from other districts of the country and received treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka. In other words, 48 children died in the Dhaka hospital. The remaining 12 children died in different hospitals outside Dhaka.
For two weeks, public health workers and journalists have been demanding and requesting full disclosure of the children who died of measles. But the data that MIS is collecting has many deficiencies. There is no information on whether the dead children were previously treated in another hospital, whether they received vaccinations, whether they were in the ICU when they died.
Professor Bay-Nazir Ahmed, a public health specialist and former director of the government’s Disease Control Branch (CDC), told Prothom Alo, “It is very sad that there is no vaccine information here. At least 31 of the children who died were supposed to have received the vaccine. There is no way to know how many of them were vaccinated, how many received two full doses, how many died after vaccination. This can only be known by properly reviewing the death records. That needs to happen.’
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