Hospital collapses due to heavy downpour in Nepal

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Hospital collapses due to heavy downpour in Nepal

Kathmandu, July 25 (Xinhua): A two-storey building of the 125- year-old Jaleswor hospital in Mahottari district in central Nepal collapsed due to the heavy downpour, leaving scores of patients stranded in the hospital, the National News Agency RSS reported on Wednesday.

The roof in the western front of the building crumbled and the wall is on the verge of collapse. All rooms of in-door department are inundated with rainwater, the RSS reported.

The patients in the ward are now being transfered to the building of Family Planning Association of Nepal.

Likewise, rainfall has been a problem in obstetric service, obstetric room and isolation ward in another building of in-door department.

In the flood-hit district, some 130 km south of Kathmandu, the number of viral fever patients visiting hospitals and health centers have gone up in the past one week.

Most of the rural areas in the district are in the grip of the disease. Most of the patients visiting the district hospital in Jaleshwor have fever, a health worker Anita Sharma, said.

A sudden surge in the mercury level and polluted water may have caused the spread of the disease, said the head of the district hospital Dr Pawan Thakur.

"The viral fever may develop into kala-zar and typhoid if patients don't get timely medical treatment," Thakur added.

Source: The Hindu