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1 killed, over 500 taken ill by unknown disease in far-western Nepal
www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-13 12:20:09 Print
KATHMANDU, June 13 (Xinhua) -- One was killed and more than 500 people, most of them women and children are bed-ridden due to an unknown disease that has been raging at Khaptad village in Achham district in far-western Nepal for two weeks, The Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday.
Anga Kadayat, a local, said the disease has gripped almost everyone in the village, some 320 km west of Kathmandu. "The patients complain of pain on their limb, burning sensation in their eyes, headache and fever."
As the health center at the disease-hit region is without health workers, medical attention is beyond the patients' reach.
Local people complain that their pleas to the District Public Health Office (DPHO) to send medicos to the affected areas has fallen on deaf ears.
However, Jhapat Dhungana, senior assistant health worker at the DPHO, said the people at Khaptad have been suffering from minor fever. According to him, the DPHO has sent a health worker to the affected area
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/13/content_11536081.htm
www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-13 12:20:09 Print
KATHMANDU, June 13 (Xinhua) -- One was killed and more than 500 people, most of them women and children are bed-ridden due to an unknown disease that has been raging at Khaptad village in Achham district in far-western Nepal for two weeks, The Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday.
Anga Kadayat, a local, said the disease has gripped almost everyone in the village, some 320 km west of Kathmandu. "The patients complain of pain on their limb, burning sensation in their eyes, headache and fever."
As the health center at the disease-hit region is without health workers, medical attention is beyond the patients' reach.
Local people complain that their pleas to the District Public Health Office (DPHO) to send medicos to the affected areas has fallen on deaf ears.
However, Jhapat Dhungana, senior assistant health worker at the DPHO, said the people at Khaptad have been suffering from minor fever. According to him, the DPHO has sent a health worker to the affected area
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/13/content_11536081.htm