An under-trial prisoner (UTP), who was undergoing treatment for dengue at the SCB Medical College Hospital here, died early on Monday morning. With this death, the premier referral hospital here registered its fourth dengue death this year.
The first dengue death here had been reported in June.
Hospital sources said one Rajendra Naik (35) of Chadragiri in Rayagada district had been admitted here on Saturday after he was referred by the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Brahmapur.
He was facing trial in a murder case and was lodged in the Rayagada jail after he was arrested in January.
After a bout of fever in the jail, he had been admitted to the Rayagada hospital on September 3; and from there, he was shifted to the Brahmapur hospital on September 5. In Brahmapur, Rajendra was diagnosed of suffering from dengue and was referred to the Cuttack hospital.