A 5-year-old man from Bihar, who was working in the port township of Paradip died of the vector-borne disease while undergoing treatment at the hospital since Monday.
"The patient was admitted in a critical condition and was immediately shifted to the intensive care unit, where his condition further deteriorated. He succumbed to the viral disease this morning," informed the hospital's dengue nodal officer Shiba Prasad Mohanty.
He said a patient from West Bengal was recently discharged from the hospital after the person recovered from dengue after a fortnight-long treatment.