अस्पतालमा बिरामीको घुईचो, ९० प्रतिशतमा झाडापखाला

भीमदत्तनगर, बैशाख ३० गते 
 गर्मी बढेसंगै महाकाली अञ्चल अस्पतालमा बिरामीको संख्या समेत बढेको छ । 
बैशाखको तेस्रो सता यता शुरु भएको प्रचण्ड गर्मीका कारण बिरामीको संख्या बढेको महाकाली अञ्चल अस्पतालले जनाएको छ । अस्पतालमा अहिले बैशाखको अन्तिम साता शुरु भएबाट बिरामीको संख्या दोब्बर भएको छ । अस्पतालका डाक्टर रामबिहारी चौधरीका अनुसार बिरामी मध्ये धेरै जसो झाडापखालाका रहेका छन । उपचारका लागि आउने बिरामी मध्ये ९० प्रतिशतमा झाडापखाला देखिएको छ भने अन्य कोही टाईफाइड, टाउँको दुख्ने, दम तथा वान्ता हुने लगायतका रहेका छन ।
 कतिपय बिरामी पेट दुख्ने समस्याले समेत अस्पताल पुगेका छन । बढ्दो गर्मीका कारण पानी दुषित हुनु, बासी खानेकुरा खानु लगायतका विभिन्न समस्याले गर्दा बिरामी समेत बढेका हुन । चिकित्कसहरुले गर्मीयामका समयमा बासी खानेकुरा नखान तथा सफा र स्वच्छ पानीको मात्रै प्रयोग गर्न सुझाव दिएका छन । धेरैजसोले पानी फिल्टर गरेर खाए सुरक्षित भईन्छ भन्ने सोचे पनि अहिले प्रयोग हुने धेरै जसो फिल्टरमा छानिएको पानी सुरक्षित नहुने जनाइएको छ । यस्तै गर्मी मौसममा सरसफाईमा विशेष ध्यान दिन तथा तरकारी र फलफूल राम्रो संग पखालेर मात्रै खानुपर्ने चिकित्सकको सुझाव छ । 

श्रोत: गोरखापत्र  अनलाईन  

Diarrhoea still not under control in Rautahat

7th May, 1014

RAUTAHAT: The outbreak of diarrhoea that started in Gaindatar of Chandranigahapur VDC, a week ago, is yet to be brought under control. 

Diarrhoea infection was first seen in Gaindatar on April 30. Though doctors from government and private hospitals started treating patients in temporary camps at the local Janashakti Secondary School, the disease has not been brought under control so far, said Dr Dharmendra Patel of Chandranigahapur Hospital. According to him, they have cured 350 diarrhoea patients till today. 

Ten patients are being administered saline water at the camp, said another doctor at the hospital, Amit Kumar Patel. According to him, many patients are children. “As people started drinking spring water after water wells dried up, Gaindatar residents were infected,” said health workers. 

However, the main reason behind the outbreak is yet to be confirmed, said doctor Patel. “The water supplied in the area and stool samples have been sent to Kathmandu for tests,” said Patel. 

Twelve persons were seriously infected with diarrhoea at Chandranigahapur-4 as well. “A temporary camp has been set up to treat patients and to prevent an epidemic in the area, he said. 

A four-member investigation panel led by Dr Pranilman Singh Pradhan of Patan Health Academy has been formed. The team reached Gaindatar today. The panel also completed the field study of the water source in the area. 

Red Cross Society Chandranigahapur distributed 20 litres of water to each household at Gaindatar through tanker today. 

Meanwhile, District Public Health Chief Raj Kishor Pandit said, “The situation is gradually improving and will come under complete control within two days.” 

Local Raju Dhami said locals had to suffer because the water source had become filthy. The locals had demanded proper treatment of the infected and supply of water in the locality from District Drinking Water and Sanitation Division Office a few days ago. 

Source: The Hilmalayan Times

Waste segregation bins to be installed at Hanumandhoka Square

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to install separate waste segregation bins at the Hanumandhoka Durbar Square area. 

“We will place nine sets of bins at the heritage area from (next) Friday as per the civic body’s plan to install separate bins for organic and inorganic waste at the busiest sections of the city within the current fiscal,” said chief of the KMC’s Environment Management Division Rabin Man Shrestha.

There are 200,000 households in the metropolis with the total population of 1.1 million. More than 450 metric tonnes of waste is daily produced from the metropolis, according to the KMC office.

“Each container will have a capacity of 30 litres,” Shrestha said, adding that the campaign will be gradually extended to other areas.

Two years ago, the civic body had placed about 500 trash bins of 240 litre capacity each along the major sections of the city. However, only a single bin was kept at different parts of the city for organic and inorganic waste. They were later removed during the road expansion drive, according to KMC.

The civic body will also install two separate bins in those places from where the bins were removed, said KMC officials. 

KMC has allotted Rs 1.5 million for the plan to be implemented in the coming fiscal. Despite several attempts, KMC has not succeeded in implementing the waste segregation laws at households.

The Waste Management Act 2011 has provisioned the segregation of waste at the source to keep the city clean, but it is yet to be effectively enforced.

It has also provisioned a fine of Rs 500 to Rs 100,000 and imprisonment of two weeks to three months against the violators of the waste management law

Soruce: The Himalayan Times

Published Date: 2014-02-01

KMC's sanitation campaigns fail to keep city clean

KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Every day Dambar Bahadur Naral, a security guard at the Nepal Medical Association, has to clean away the refuse pile dumped in front of his office to open the main gate. 
It has been his daily routine in the last 13 years. Naral is fed up with the negligence of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) office, a major body to maintain wastage in Kathmandu city. 

“I joined this office some 13 years ago and I have been cleaning the refuses from the first day of my job,” said Naral. “The problem of refuse is always same here. If the KMC office does not maintain the wastage of the capital city, then what is the office for?”
Naral, 52, said that along with the KMC office, nearby hotels and other shops are also responsible for the piles of refuse in front of his office. “They use this place as a dumping site and sometime the rickshaw which is operated by the KMC office, to collect the refuse, also dumps the collected refuse here only,” he added.
“Once we had submitted a letter to the KMC office, requesting them to clean the road and collect all the refuse,” said Naral. “As per our request letter, they sent garbage truck and collected all the refuse. By then, they did not come again which means we have to send letters regularly in order to clean the refuse.”
Like Naral, Januka Adhikari, 30, is also facing the problem of wastages. Adhikari, who has been operating her cosmetic shop on a pulling cart at Kalanki, is compelled to run her shop near the pile of refuse as that place is the closest to her room.
“I have been operating here for the last one year and I have not seen any garbage van collecting the refuses from here,” said Adhikari. “But I have seen people throwing wastage. The concerned authority should collect the refuse regularly so that people would not have to face so many problems. Not only me but all the people who cross this road have been facing the same problem." 
According to her, the refuse could be harmful for children´s health as well. So, the concerned authority must collect the refuse timely. 
Tons of wastes have piled up on many street of the capital city. Despite the fact that the KMC office has been organizing special cleanliness campaigns, the problem of waste is still the same. 

The KMC office is organizing a seven-day cleanliness campaign from today to mark 18th anniversary of its establishment. Some of the officials gathered today and organized various plans along with cleaning the capital city. Similarly, they have also informed all the wards of Kathmandu to carry out cleanliness campaign in their respective wards. The KMC office will celebrate its anniversary on December 14. 
“We have organized a cleaning campaign on the anniversary of our office,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of Environment Management Division at KMC office. “Our campaign will help to increase awareness among the people.”
The KMC office has organized a number of such campaigns in the past but none of them have had any noticeable effect on the cleanliness of the capital city.
source: myrepublica.com

Air pollution giving Capital denizens a cough

KATHMANDU: The ongoing road expansion drive has given rise to various respiratory disease in the Kathmandu Valley. 

According to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, it has recorded 831 patients of pneumonia, 676 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 114 of asthma and 144 of bronchitis since July. 

“Number of people suffering from various respiratory diseases has doubled since the road-widening drive began,” said Dr Dirgha Singh Bam, a former health secretary. “Though the government’s road expansion initiative is appreciable, it has not been well-organised.”

According to World Health Organisation, air pollution is a significant risk factor for multiple health conditions, including respiratory infections, heart diseases and lung cancer.

Air pollution causes breathing difficulty, pneumonia, asthma, bronchitis, skin diseases, allergy, wheezing and coughing problems. The problems caused due to air pollution is broad, however, it mostly affects the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. 

“The government could have prevented this problem by expediting the road construction and carrying out the works at night,” Dr Bam said. 

According to WHO standards‚ the level of Particulate Matter10 should be 20 microgram per cubic metre (µg/m3). The Ministry of Environment informed that the PM-10 concentration in ambient air was recorded at up to 699 µg/m3 against 120 µg/m3, the national ambient air quality standards in Kathmandu in March. 

The air pollution in Kathmandu is mainly attributed to vehicular emissions. The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division says that on-duty traffic cops can be taken as indicator to the adverse health hazards triggered by the air pollution as they perform duty by standing at least 18 hours on the roads daily. 

According to statistics, an average of four traffic cops are taken ill daily due to exposure to dust particles and exhaust, prompting the MTPD to organise health camps from time to time.

Source: The Himalayan Times
5th December, 2013

Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteers have paved the way for groundbreaking ideas in the health sector

DEC 05 -

Today, December 5 marks an important milestone—the 25th anniversary of Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHV).  The idea was simple enough in theory. With the assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations, a cadre of female health practitioners would bring health education and medical outreach services to families throughout the country. In practice, the challenges were enormous, not least Nepal’s underdeveloped infrastructure and extreme geography.  

Now, 25 years later, I can confidently say the project has been a huge success.  Since its inception in 1988, the FCHV programme has proven to be a key factor in Nepal’s dramatic reduction in maternal and child mortality.  Today, there are about 52,000 FCHV members working across the country’s 75 districts.  They are a vital pillar of Nepal’s public health sector and have saved the lives of tens of thousands of people who would otherwise have died from unnecessary causes.

December 5 is also commemorated worldwide as International Volunteer’s Day. And who better to be honoured on this day than Female Community Health Volunteers, who serve as Nepal’s frontline public health workers? In congratulating these special, dedicated women, let me cite a few of their most impressive achievements:

सर्लाहीमा झाडापखालाको प्रकोप

सर्लाहीमा झाडापखालाको प्रकोप

दूषित पानीले यहाँको चुरेफेदीको परवानीपुर १ सतभैया टोलमा झाडापखालाको प्रकोप फैलिएको छ । प्रकोप बढेपछि स्वास्थ्यकर्मीको टोलीले गाउँमा पुगेर उपचार गरिरहेको छ । शनिबार बिहान गाउँमा पखाला फैलिएपछि उपचारका लागि लालबन्दी प्राथमिक स्वास्थ्य केन्द्रमा लगिएको थियो ।

'पूरै गाउँमा एकै पटक झाडापखाला फैलियो,' स्थानीय दिलबहादुर रेग्मीले भने, 'टाउको दुख्ने, बान्ता हुने र पखाला लाग्ने भयो ।' गाउँलेले प्रयोग गर्ने साझा इनारको पानी दूषित भएर झाडापखाला फैलिएको अनुमान छ । एक्कासि धेरै बिरामी परेपछि चुनाव प्रचारमा पुगेका उम्मेदवारका गाडीमा उनीहरूलाई अस्पताल लगिएको थियो । १७ जनाको लालबन्दी अस्पतालमा उपचार भइरहेको छ । 'चुनाव प्रचारका गाडी नभएको भए के हुन्थ्यो भन्न सकिन्न,' रेग्मीले भने, 'धेरै जना बिरामी भएकाले आत्तिएर हामी त सोच्नै नसक्ने भएका थियौं ।' लालबन्दी प्राथमिक स्वास्थ्य केन्द्रमा उपचारार्थ भर्ना भएका १२ जना निको भएर आइतबार घर फिर्ता भएका छन् । 

बढी बिरामी ५ जनाको उपचार जारी छ । बिरामी भई अस्पतालमा उपचारार्थ भर्ना भएका टलकबहादुर रानाले सधैंझैं खानेकुरा खाएकाले पानीकै कारण पखाला फैलिएको बताए । 'गाउँमा रहेको इनारको पानी खाने तल्लो टोलका मात्र सबैजसो बिरामी पर्‍यौं,' उनले भने, 'अस्पताल आएका बाहेक गाउँमा पनि उत्तिकै बिरामी छन् ।' शनिबार अस्पताल भर्ना भएका रानालाई आइतबारसम्म निको भएको छैन । अस्पतालकी नर्स कमला भट्टराईले पखाला, बान्ता र टाउको दुख्ने लक्षण बिरामीमा देखिएको बताइन् ।

 

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