Bajura villagers in grip of diarrhoea

BAJURA, AUG 13 -

Many people have taken ill due to diarrhoea that spread in Badhu VDC in the district for the past week.

Gamba Bahadur Sunar, a retired policeman, said many villagers have taken ill, some seriously, due to the disease at Wards No 2, 3, 4 and 5. He said that Chinkala Rokaya, Krishna Datta Pandey and Shanti BK, who were suffering from the disease, were taken to Ratapani Health Post in the neighbouring Mugu district.

The District Public Health Office (DPHO) said it has not received any formal information about the disease yet. Officiating DPHO Chief Dr Hridaya Bibhu Ghimire said his office would do the needful after receiving information about the epidemic.

Meanwhile, the DPHO in Doti claimed that diarrhoea is under control in the district. Mahendradhoj Adhikari, an official at the DPHO, said though many people died of diarrhoea in the past, the number of deaths caused by the disease was on the decline lately. Tek Bahadur Ojha, inspection officer at the local branch of Epidemiology and Diseases Control Division (EDCD), said the number of diarrhoea patients visiting health centres had decreased lately. Many organisations such as Nepal Police, Nepal Army and Nepal Red Cross Society have launched a campaign against the disease in the district.

Posted on: 2012-08-13 

Source: Kantipur Daily