Monsoon mayhem continues in eastern Nepal

Monsoon mayhem continues in eastern Nepal



Kantipur Report


MAHOTTARI, July 24 - Hundreds of people have been rendered homeless in eastern Terai while transport services in parts of the western hills have been disrupted due to heavy monsoon rains.
Normal life in Mahottari district has been severely affected due to three days of torrential downpour.

Many parts of the district are flooded, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.

The rainfall has not stopped and floods on a lighter scale are still continuing, the police said.

Large parts of the district headquarters at Jaleshwor have been flooded.

In Jaleshwor jail, the water level has soared up to two feet. Jailer Arjun Sharma said, “Inmates are falling sick due to rain-induced colds and lack of proper sleep.”

Similarly, transport services have been severely affected by water logged roads.

Similarly, the southern parts of Sarlahi district have also come under the effect of the heavy rainfall.

“The local administration in Sarlahi district is preparing to tackle any possible natural calamities as the water level in the area has been rising,” an official at the Chief District Office, Sarlahi said from Malangawa.

Around a dozen villages in Rautahat have been submerged under water.

Tejapaakad, Karuniya, Pathara, Budharaam, Akolba, Inaruwa and Bhasedawa among other VDCs have been inundated. The floods have also destroyed thousands of crops.

“The roads have been obstructed,” chief of the Gaur Customs Office Mojhar Allam said. “The revenue collection was nil on Sunday.”

Due to the bad condition of the roads, the import of essential commodities from India has been also affected.

Downpour affects life in Gulmi, Palpa

In western Nepal, roads in Gulmi district have also been affected by the rainfall.

Roads have been swept away by the heavy downpour affecting transport services in the Chaldi-Simaltaari, Ratdada-Paudiamrai, Arjai-Ghamir-Arkhabang, Purkot, Bajhkateri, Gaudakot, Jubhung to Majuwa stretches.

Similarly, the Siddhartha Highway which was blocked due to floods last night has been partly reopened today.

According to our local correspondent, public transport to Siddhababa Dovan in Palpa has resumed.

Source: Kantipur
Posted on: 2007-07-24 03:20:37 (Server Time)

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