He came up with the statement at a roundtable in Bashundhara residential area.
Hundreds of people have been killed during an outbreak of dengue fever in Southeast Asia since January.
Minister Islam said the authorities took mosquito controlling as a challenge after recent outbreak. “The risk was minimised thanks to everyone’s efforts,” he said.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam spoke at the programme as special guest.
Bangladesh grappled with the dengue outbreak this year. A large number of patients put a severe strain on the country’s already overwhelmed medical system. Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city, was at the centre of the outbreak.
The city corporations’ failure to tackle the situation caused panic among the residents and triggered widespread criticism. But the situation started improving since the beginning of September with fewer new cases and deaths being reported every day.
Since January, 87,263 people were hospitalised with dengue, most of them in Dhaka. Of them, 85,323 had made full recovery. At present, 1,709 patients, including 629 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research received reports of 231 dengue-related deaths since the beginning of this year. It has reviewed 136 cases so far and confirmed 81 dengue-related deaths.
Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection, causes flu-like illness, and occasionally develops into a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. About half of the world's population is now at risk, according to WHO.
There is no specific treatment for dengue or severe dengue, the WHO says, but early detection and access to proper medical care lowers fatality rates below 1 percent.
Dengue prevention and control depends on effective vector control measures, it says.