Bangladeshi diarrhea patients wait for treatment at a hospital of International Center for Diarrhea Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on April 18, 2008. The diarrhea situation in Bangladesh worsens as summer temperature rises in the South Asian nation. (Xinhua Photo/Qamruz Zaman) Photo Gallery>>>

    DHAKA, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The diarrhea situation in Bangladesh has worsened day by day with the temperature increases.

    The International Center for Diarrhea Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), a special research center and hospital for diarrhea patients in the capital Dhaka, has received hundreds of diarrhea patients over the last week.

    An official of ICDDR,B, who did not give her name, told Xinhua on Friday they received 418 diarrhea patients on Thursday.

    "221 diarrhea patients have been admitted to our hospital till 3 p.m. today," she said.

    She said that usually more children are affected by diarrhea, but this year more adult diarrhea patients were admitted to the hospital.

    The official said the high temperature is the reason behind the breakout of the diarrhea, as the weather has become hotter and hotter since the beginning of April.

    Most of the diarrhea patients are from the lower-income group who work very hard in the high temperature. They have no access for safe water and healthy food and are easily to have dehydration in the hot weather which leading to diarrhea disease.