The continued deaths amusement the archetypal exigency run was inadequate, nationalist wellness adept Dr Mushtuq Husain told the BBC.
He said it near excessively galore children unprotected and should person reached much regions and age-groups.
"There are nary shortcuts erstwhile it comes to a response," helium said. "The authorities made the close determination to leap into action. But the wellness workers needed to spell door-to-door to marque radical alert of the urgency."
The WHO insists the run was a occurrence but acknowledges "some people children were not reached by vaccination activities".
"The outbreak dispersed nationwide earlier vaccination activities were implemented, creating extended transmission chains that instrumentality clip to afloat interrupt," the WHO said successful a connection to the BBC.
Most cases are among unvaccinated children, with astir 83% of confirmed measles cases occurring among those who were unvaccinated, and 10% among infants nether six months old, and truthful "highly susceptible during outbreaks," according to the WHO.
Malnutrition leaves radical peculiarly susceptible and much apt to make superior complications oregon dice from measles.
Bangladesh is besides peculiarly susceptible during an outbreak, due to the fact that kid malnutrition tin summation the hazard of superior complications and decease from measles.
Hospitals person been near overwhelmed by the outbreak.
When the BBC visited immoderate successful June, dozens of families were seen lying connected blankets connected the floor, and 1 infirmary said it was operating astatine much than treble its capacity.
Back then, the wellness curate had acknowledged the strain connected the wellness strategy but said this was to beryllium expected, fixed the country's colonisation of much than 170 cardinal people, and that the authorities had "met the situation already", with the fig of cases coming down.
Since then, 300 much children person died.
Globally, Bangladesh is not the lone state seeing an outbreak this year, though not each of them of this severity.
The United Kingdom was considered to person eliminated the illness altogether but mislaid that presumption this year.
The United States has besides seen a emergence successful measles cases successful caller years, and children nether 5 successful some countries autumn abbreviated of the 95% vaccination threshold needed for herd immunity.
Additional reporting by Sardar Ronie
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