Sadar Hospital struggles to cope with patients
Twenty-eight more diarrhoea patients were admitted to Gaibandha Sadar Hospital yesterday.
With them, as many as 336 patients of Gaibandha municipality and adjoining areas got admitted to the hospital with serious diarrhoeal problem in the last three days.
The affected areas are Pashchimpara, Khanka Sharif, Palashpara, Shaplapara, and Dhanghara, Sarkerpara in the municipality; and Kholahati, Ramchandrapur, Boali, Falia and Miapara in Sadar upazila of the district.
The disease broke out early hours of Thursday in the areas and since then doctors of the hospital received the patients with serious stomach and intestinal problems.
The hospital authorities are struggling to arrange accommodation due to huge rush of patients.
Many of them took shelter at the entrance space, corridor and even under the open sky of the hospital premises. Volunteers of Brac set up makeshift sheds on the premises, accommodating 20 other patients.
As many as 28 more patients got admitted to the hospital and 112 others are still under intensive treatment and the rest have been released after recovery, said Civil Surgeon Dr Nirmolendu Chowdhury.
The district administration supplied 1300 bags of cholera saline, thousand liters of mineral water, 300 dettol soaps, Deputy Commissioner Abdus Samad said, adding that Zila Parishad and Brac also contributed one thousand bags of cholera saline,
Meanwhile, an eight-member physician team from Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, led by Dr Al-Mamun Mahbub Alam reached the district on Friday afternoon to find out the reason for sudden outbreak of diarrhoeal disease.
The team started collecting samples from patients and water to identify the reason of the disease.
The epidemic might be due to contaminated drinking water, said the civil surgeon.
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