Diarrhoea kills 8, affects over 500 in Moulvibazar, Pabna
Diarrhoea claimed eight lives and affected over five hundred in Moulvibazar tea gardens and different upazilas in Pabna in last one week.
At least seven tea garden labourers died and over 200 were attacked with diarrhoea in two tea gardens of Srimongal upazila during last six days, reports our Moulvibazar correspondent.
Six of the deceased failed to get any treatment, Makhan Lal Karmaker, Chairman of Rajghat union parishad (UP) of Srimongal upazila, said, adding that at least 200 labourers of Rajghat and Katim tea gardens have been infected with the disease and the number is on the rise.
The patients have been admitted to Srimongal Upazila Health Complex and tea garden dispensaries.
Negligence of tea garden authorities, scarcity of pure drinking water and lack of awareness among the labourers are responsible for the spread of diarrhoea, Moulvibazar Civil Surgeon Dr Afaz Uddin said.
Three thousand packets of oral saline and 13,000 water purification tablets have been distributed in the diarrhoea-prone Rajghat and Katim tea gardens and three medical teams are working there, he added.
Our Pabna correspondent adds: An elderly woman died and at least 328 people have been affected by diarrhoea in a week in the district.
Sujanagar and Bera upazilas are the worst affected areas.
Khatun Jan, 68, wife of Abdul Latif of village Kuripara in Sujanagar upazila, died of the disease on October 19.
The district health department has sufficient medicines and saline for the diarrhoea patients, Pabna Civil Surgeon Dr Md Abdul Wadud Miah told this correspondent over phone on Monday.
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