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Mystery fever kills 5 Reangs
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Silchar, Jan. 22: A group of three doctors and a few paramedical personnel equipped with life-saving medicines and saline drips today moved out of the state hospital at the block headquarters town of Lala to set up medical camps at Kundanala and Nunai villages where an unknown fever has claimed the lives of five tribals in 12 days.
The Reang-inhabited villages are nearly 40km from Hailakandi town. Four of the dead were women.
Hailakandi deputy commissioner T.C. Goswami today said over phone that he had instructed the joint director of health services in the district headquarters town to arrange the despatch of the team of doctors and paramedical staff besides consignments of medicines to the affected places under Lala block town under Katlicherra Assembly constituency in the district on its boundary with Mizoram.
High fever accompanied by inflammations on the body of the victims and severe pain were the symptoms, Goswami said, adding the virus was yet to be properly diagnosed.
The in-charge of the Lala primary hospital, Jayanta Das, denied that the villagers had died of malaria.
He said Jahidul Islam, who is heading the team of three doctors, had been specially instructed to collect blood samples of the tribals afflicted with the ?mystery disease? for proper diagnosis at Silchar Medical College and Hospital.
The five who had died over the past 12 days in the Reang-inhabited villages are Janu Reang, 32, Dhanyamani Reang, 40, Mulyabati Reang, 55, Albati Reang, 38, and Dhaniram Reang, 50. The first four were women.
Except Janu who belonged to Channighat village, the rest were from Kundanala, official sources in Hailakandi town said today.
Sources said Janu was first treated at the civil hospital in Hailakandi from where she was shifted to Silchar Medical College and Hospital. She died there on January 17. Her ailment could not be diagnosed at the medical college hospital as no blood culture was conducted there.
At least 20 Reang tribals, with high fever, are battling for life in Durgapur, Bander-cherra, Yakubnala and Lalch-erra villages near Nunai.
The president of the District Tribal Sangha, Ramendra Reang, had demanded a mini-hospital and quick economic development in the Reang enclaves of Lala block.
Mystery fever kills 5 Reangs
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Silchar, Jan. 22: A group of three doctors and a few paramedical personnel equipped with life-saving medicines and saline drips today moved out of the state hospital at the block headquarters town of Lala to set up medical camps at Kundanala and Nunai villages where an unknown fever has claimed the lives of five tribals in 12 days.
The Reang-inhabited villages are nearly 40km from Hailakandi town. Four of the dead were women.
Hailakandi deputy commissioner T.C. Goswami today said over phone that he had instructed the joint director of health services in the district headquarters town to arrange the despatch of the team of doctors and paramedical staff besides consignments of medicines to the affected places under Lala block town under Katlicherra Assembly constituency in the district on its boundary with Mizoram.
High fever accompanied by inflammations on the body of the victims and severe pain were the symptoms, Goswami said, adding the virus was yet to be properly diagnosed.
The in-charge of the Lala primary hospital, Jayanta Das, denied that the villagers had died of malaria.
He said Jahidul Islam, who is heading the team of three doctors, had been specially instructed to collect blood samples of the tribals afflicted with the ?mystery disease? for proper diagnosis at Silchar Medical College and Hospital.
The five who had died over the past 12 days in the Reang-inhabited villages are Janu Reang, 32, Dhanyamani Reang, 40, Mulyabati Reang, 55, Albati Reang, 38, and Dhaniram Reang, 50. The first four were women.
Except Janu who belonged to Channighat village, the rest were from Kundanala, official sources in Hailakandi town said today.
Sources said Janu was first treated at the civil hospital in Hailakandi from where she was shifted to Silchar Medical College and Hospital. She died there on January 17. Her ailment could not be diagnosed at the medical college hospital as no blood culture was conducted there.
At least 20 Reang tribals, with high fever, are battling for life in Durgapur, Bander-cherra, Yakubnala and Lalch-erra villages near Nunai.
The president of the District Tribal Sangha, Ramendra Reang, had demanded a mini-hospital and quick economic development in the Reang enclaves of Lala block.
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