The highest 58.37 per cent of the country’s population of both sexes suffered from fever, according to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, 2010.
The survey showed that 9.94 percent of the population of both sexes at the national level suffered from pain, followed by 5.16 percent from diarrhoea, 2.12 percent from dysentery, 2.49 percent from weakness, 2.26 percent from palpitation, 1.97 percent from blood pressure and 6.62 percent from other diseases.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted the survey during a one-year period –February 2010 to January 2011 — and completed the preliminary analysis of the data in a record four months.
Among the females who had some sort of diseases during the survey period, 56.79 percent suffered from fever, 11.82 percent from pain, 4.78 percent from diarrhea and some 6.63 percent from other diseases.
In 2005, the highest proportion of the population that suffered from some sort of fever was 55.32 percent, followed by pain 9.60 percent and diarrhoea 6.48 percent. The pattern was equally valid for both the male and female population.
In the first 30 days of the survey in 2010, the highest proportion of male that suffered from fever was 6.78 percent, followed by pain 8.22 percent and diarrhoea 6.84 percent. Similarly, the highest proportion of female that suffered from fever was 53.95 percent, followed by pain 10.90 percent and diarrhoea 6.14 percent.
-With UNB/The Daily Star input
