Moulvibazar, Aug. 11 -- Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Sunday said the dengue situation has taken a serious turn in the country for lack of prior preparations to face it.

"We've to take preparations in advance. Then the dengue situation can't turn so serious," he said while speaking at a views-exchange meeting on mosquito elimination and cleanliness at Moulvibazar municipality auditorium.

Citing the case of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal who could not place his budget speech in Parliament on June 13 last after being infected with dengue, Shahab Uddin said, "What a dangerous situation is created following the biting of a little mosquito. There would have been no such a situation had we been prepar...