KUALA TERENGGANU: The increasing number of dengue cases and deaths in this state show that the dengue outbreak this year is a serious episode for the state.
State Health, Women Development , Family and Community committee chairman Datuk Muhammad Pehemi Yusof said quick action should be taken to put an end to the problem.
Pehemi said yesterday, Terengganu recorded the fifth fatality from dengue this year following the death of an 11-year-old pupil from Pulau Perhentian in Besut.
He said the boy who was admitted to the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital on Monday night after suffering from fever for six days.
He died while receiving treatment.
" A sibling of the boy is still being warded at the Besut Hospital," he said.
Pehemi said a team of officers from the Terengganu Health Department had fogged Pulau Perhentian and conducted health checks on the island.
To date, Terengganu recorded five deaths with 343 cases of dengue in January alone. This is a 290 per cent increase in number of cases compared to the 92 cases during the same period last year.