Director of the provincial Department of Health Phan Huy Anh Vu yesterday confirmed the dengue fever-related death of a 36-year-old woman in Dong Hoa Commune of Trang Bom District.
The woman was taken to the local General Hospital in critical condition. Despite physicians’ efforts to save her, she succumbed to the disease yesterday because of fast development including bleeding in heart and lung within several hours.
By the province health sector’s statistic, from the beginning of the year, there has been over 9,200 cases of dengue fever, tripling the same period last year.