Flood Victims are getting waterborne disease: After deluge, it’s disease

After deluge, it’s disease

Damodar Bhandari
Bardiya, July 31:

Over 1,000 flood victims are suffering from various diseases in Bardiya district.
Doctors said today that the victims are falling sick as there is no clean drinking water. An epidemic looms in the district as the flood victims have been drinking polluted water, the Red Cross and District Public Health Office (DPHO) said.
Teams of health workers and medicines have not been sent to all the flood-affected areas yet, chief of the Bardiya chapter of Nepal Red Cross, Govinda Poudel, said.
Around 1,200 victims are suffering from various diseases in the district, Bardiya DPHO chief Dr Ramashankar Deep said.
Ninety-five persons are suffering from different diseases in Badhupur village and 95 have fallen victim to the diseases in Suryagadhi village of Mohamadpur village development committee, Dr Deep said.
The diseases that have spread are diarrhoea, typhoid, conjunctivitis, flu, pneumonia and common cold, he added.
Five seriously ill diarrhoea and typhoid patients are undergoing treatment in the Bardiya District Hospital.
“We went to two villages and found 200 patients. We are yet to visit other villages affected by the flood,” Dr Deep said.
Even as the chances of the diseases spreading are increasing due to the polluted water, there is shortage of medicine, he said.
“Of the 23 inundated VDCs and a municipality hit by floods, teams of health workers have reached the Mohamadpur village development committee only,” Red Cross chief Poudel said.

Three swept away
DHANGADHI: Two persons were swept away on Monday night in Kailali district, while the body of a 50-year-old man, who was swept away by Khadam river was recovered from Kerabari in Morang on Tuesday. The police said Nain Singh Bohara, 55, of Lalbojhi VDC-9 and three-year-old Akash Chaudhary of Thapapur VDC-6 died after being swept away by flood in Kailali district on Monday night.
Altogether 67 families at Ward No 9 of Thapapur VDC, surrounded by Kandra and Kanda rivers, have been awaiting rescue from the rooftops of their houses and trees and most of them are starving. — HNS

Over 1000 Flood Victims Fall Sick in Bardiya

Damodar Bhandari
Bardiya, August 1

Over 1,000 flood victims are suffering from various diseases in Bardiya district.
Doctors said today that the victims are falling sick as there is no clean drinking water.
An epidemic looms in the district as the flood victims have been drinking polluted water, the Red Cross and District Public Health Office (DPHO) said.
Teams of health workers and medicines have not been sent to all the flood-affected areas yet, chief of the Bardiya chapter of Nepal Red Cross, Govinda Poudel, said.
Around 1,200 victims are suffering from various diseases, Bardiya DPHO chief Dr Ramashankar Deep said.
Ninety-five persons are suffering from different diseases in Badhupur village and 95 have fallen victim to the diseases in Suryagadhi village of Mohamadpur VDC, Dr Deep said. The diseases that have spread are diarrhoea, typhoid, conjunctivitis, flu, pneumonia and common cold, he added.
Five seriously ill diarrhoea and typhoid patients are undergoing treatment in the Bardiya District Hospital.
"We went to two villages and found 200 patients. We are yet to visit other villages affected by the flood," Dr Deep said.
"We have sent two teams of health workers that will tour the affected areas one by one," he added.
Even as the chances of the diseases spreading are increasing due to the polluted water, there is shortage of medicine, he said.
"We were informed that medicines in the Nyalopur health post are in short supply, but we are not being able to send medicines there as we don't have them immediately," Dr Deep said.
"Of the 23 inundated VDCs and a municipality hit by floods, teams of health workers have reached the Mohamadpur VDC only. We have received a report that over 1,000 flood victims are suffering from diseases," Red Cross chief Poudel said. According to the Red Cross, 4,000 households have been affected by the floods and 1,500 have been displaced in the district so far.