Lack of hospitals aids spread of diarrhoea

  • 15/09/2010

  • New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)

RAYAGADA/MALKANGIRI: Even as Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg accompanied by the Southern Division RDC CS Kumar and Rayagada Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale visited the worst-affected Lakapai village under Kalyansinghpur block this afternoon, the situation is far from better. There is no primary health centre neither in the village nor in Serigumma panchayat limits forcing the people to go to Sikarpai primary health centre for treatment. Six persons, Arati Karkaria of Kumargutka village and Sila Kadraka of Baldia village under Buduguda GP, Sila Kadraka of Baldia village, Pabitra Dora of Sikarpai village under Sikarpai GP, Saraka Dey of Betkolamg under Sikarpai GP, one-year-old Saraka Santa and Malai Saraka of Kudurjodi village under Sikarpai GP have been admitted to the Sikarpai new PHC. Similarly five fresh cases of diarrhoea have also been reported from Lakapai mobile camp today. They have been admitted to Kashipur and other primary and community health centres. Though the inflow of diarrhoea patients is on the rise in the worst affected Bissamkatak, Kashipur and Kalyansinghpur panchayats, no deaths have been reported. District Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale said nine doctors from VSS Medical College, Burla, and 11 pharmacists are in the affected villages. Night surveillance of all the treatment centres and affected villages has been intensified.