The report also finds that environmental issues cause 5.2 billion days of illness annually and cost the equivalent of 17.6 percent of the country's GDP in 2019
He breathed his last around 3pm on Thursday at Dhaka's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital ( BSMMU), Professor Md Ali Asgor Moral told bdnews24.com. Moral is the treasurer of BSMMU.
Mohitul Islam had been on life support at the hospital's Intensive Care Unit since his admission to the hospital last month with kidney complications.
Islam could not be flown abroad for better treatment as his health condition was too critical to allow any travelling for him.
Doctors said his kidneys had failed completely, leading to repeated dialysis. The infection in his lungs was also critical. His brain, too, was failing.