GORAKHPUR: A brand new threat now haunts the children in Gorakhpur.Even prior to encephalitis may have been tackled, the havoc of flood left at the back of within the type of rubbish, filthy water, and insanitary stipulations is resulting in spread of sicknesses like diarrhoea, viral fever, dysentery , jaundice and other water-borne sicknesses in children in numerous villages of Gorakhpur.
Five-year-old Yesh Chauhan had began the second yr of faculty when his lifestyles was once lower brief. Yesh was once first identified with jaundice and later died of hepatic encephalopathy (under Acute Encephalitis Syndrome) at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College.
"Kya pata kya ho gaya, naseeb tha apna (Don't know what happened to him; perhaps it was desinty)," rued Yesh's father Sanjay Chauhan, a resident of Pachhpidwa village. While circle of relatives remains clueless, the stench of muck left at the back of through receding floods in Gorakhpur talk volumes.
In Rahmatnagar, about 20km from Gorakhpur city , lots of the children be afflicted by stomachache, fever and diarrhoea. Among the unwell children are Rahmatnagar resi dent Madhuban Chauhan's two sons -Ashish (8) and Sunny , both down with fever and stomach pain. Muck, mud, and filthy water may also be spotted outside Chauhan's unmarried storey house.
Kamla, another resident of this village, shows the damp partitions of her house the place flood water had entered. Her two-and-a-half-year previous grand daughter Radha has been suffering from fever for past few days. At BRD clinic, the selection of children deaths and unwell patients continues to upward thrust. State health minister Sidd harth Nath Singh had blamed floods for such instances as lots of the patients were suffering from waterborne sicknesses and snake bites. Gorakhpur's chiUP's S ef clinical officer Dr Ravindra Kumar, ho OF HE wever, mentioned there is not any alarming building up in flood comparable sicknesses within the district's neighborhood health care centres (CHC) and number one health care centres (PHC). "There has been no death due to water-borne diseases at any CHC or PHC," he mentioned.
Five-year-old Yesh Chauhan had began the second yr of faculty when his lifestyles was once lower brief. Yesh was once first identified with jaundice and later died of hepatic encephalopathy (under Acute Encephalitis Syndrome) at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College.
"Kya pata kya ho gaya, naseeb tha apna (Don't know what happened to him; perhaps it was desinty)," rued Yesh's father Sanjay Chauhan, a resident of Pachhpidwa village. While circle of relatives remains clueless, the stench of muck left at the back of through receding floods in Gorakhpur talk volumes.
In Rahmatnagar, about 20km from Gorakhpur city , lots of the children be afflicted by stomachache, fever and diarrhoea. Among the unwell children are Rahmatnagar resi dent Madhuban Chauhan's two sons -Ashish (8) and Sunny , both down with fever and stomach pain. Muck, mud, and filthy water may also be spotted outside Chauhan's unmarried storey house.
Kamla, another resident of this village, shows the damp partitions of her house the place flood water had entered. Her two-and-a-half-year previous grand daughter Radha has been suffering from fever for past few days. At BRD clinic, the selection of children deaths and unwell patients continues to upward thrust. State health minister Sidd harth Nath Singh had blamed floods for such instances as lots of the patients were suffering from waterborne sicknesses and snake bites. Gorakhpur's chiUP's S ef clinical officer Dr Ravindra Kumar, ho OF HE wever, mentioned there is not any alarming building up in flood comparable sicknesses within the district's neighborhood health care centres (CHC) and number one health care centres (PHC). "There has been no death due to water-borne diseases at any CHC or PHC," he mentioned.
After hospital tragedy, flood-induced diseases target Gorakhpur children
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October 23, 2017
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