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After cholera, malaria hits Orissa district

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Arkanoid Legent

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Bhubaneswar, Sep 20 (IANS) There has been a sudden increase in the number of malaria cases in Orissa's Rayagada district, where cholera and other water-borne diseases have claimed over 40 lives since August, a senior official said Monday.

'Malaria patients have increased in the last few weeks,' District Collector N.B. Jawale told IANS.

He said five to six suspected malaria cases were being reported each day from all the 22 health camps and centres set up by the administration in the district to tackle cholera and diarrhoea.

'Most of the people coming to the centres have high fever,' Jawale said.

According to the 2001 census, the Rayagada district, some 390 km from here, has a population of about 823,000 people.

Cholera and other water borne diseases have claimed 41 lives and infected over 1,500 people in all the 11 blocks of the district.

http://sify.com/news/after-cholera-malaria-hits-orissa-district-news-health-kjurajgihic.html
 
Re: After cholera, malaria hits Orissa district

HC asked to check malaria deaths in Orissa

STAFF WRITER 15:39 HRS IST
Cuttack, Oct 29 (PTI) A petition was today filed in the High Court seeking its intervention to check malaria and cholera deaths in tribal districts of Orissa.

In a miscellaneous case arising out of a PIL pending in the court over outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea in some parts of the state, petitioner Dilip Mohapatra told the court that people in tribal-dominated areas were dying of malaria due to callous and indifferent attitude of the state government.

Lack of proper health infrastructure, absence of doctors, inadequate supply of medicines and above all insufficient health awareness campaigns in rural pockets were contributing for the malaria deaths.

Appending newspaper cuttings as annexure, the petitioner pointed out that the British journal Lancet has come out with startling revelation that a whopping 51,000 people die of malaria in a year in Orissahttp://ptinews.com/news/1073782_HC-asked-to-check-malaria-deaths-in-Orissa
 
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