Scorching heat cause diarrhoea spread

A mother feeds oral saline to her child under treatment for diarrhoea at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in the capital yesterday. About 370 patients were admitted to the hospital with diarrhoea from the morning till 5:00pm yesterday owing to the scorching heat outside. Photo: Rashed Shumon