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Diarrhoea stalks Rukum, scores ill
RUKUM, JUL 19 -
An outbreak of diarrhoea similar to one that killed 70 persons last year is stalking Rukum district as scores have fallen ill in various VDCs of late.
Several persons are suffering from diarrhoea in district headquarters Musikot and 12 other VDCs in the district. With the onset of the rainy season, the water-borne disease is spreading fast in Chhiwang, Gotamkot, Duli, Athbiskot, Ghetma, Arma and other neighbouring villages.
Health workers in the area said the number of diarrhoea patients is rising by the day as people in droves are thronging nearby health posts for treatment.
To make matters worse, medicines are in short supply in about half-a-dozen health posts in the area.
“We don’t have medicines in the health post to control the outbreak,” Manika Pokharel, a health worker at the Ghetma-based sub-health post, told the Post on Monday.
Assistant Health Worker Tilak Bista at the Chhiwang sub-health post told the Post that more than 10 diarrhoea patients visit the health post for treatment every day. Similar is the case in Athbiskot and other villages around.
Rukum District Hospital also admits that diarrhoea patients are increasing in number.
A hospital source told the Post that more than a dozen people suffering from diarrhoea come to the hospital for treatment every day.
“Villagers, mostly women and children, are suffering from diarrhoea due to unsafe drinking water. The disease will soon come under control,” said Dr. Binod Giri at the hospital.
He claimed there is no need to panic as health workers and medicines have been dispatched in the villages this year.
Seventy people died and hundreds others were taken ill following an outbreak of Diarrhoea in the district last year.
Posted on: 2010-07-20 08:06
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