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| Kathmandu, Tuesday March 18, 2003 Chaitra 04, 2059. |
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Death toll in Kalikot
climbs to 26
Govt team yet to arrive in district
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 17 : The death toll from the
outbreak of a mysterious disease in Kalikot has reached 26 by Monday.
Reports from the district said five more people
have succumbed to the unidentified killer disease since Sunday. One of the fresh victims
include Lal Bahadur Shahi of Lalpur, who died early today.
According to our Kalikot correspondent, four
people who died on Sunday in Manma include: 22-year-old Amrita Sarki, Manasha Chaulagain
37, Rati Damai 67 and Lalpura Shahi whose age could not be known.
Meanwhile, issuing a press statement, Ministry
of Health on Monday said it dispatched a team of medicos to Kalikot following the spread
of the mysterious disease, which claimed 26 lives in two weeks. But our correspondent in
the district, dismissing the claims of the government, said that the team of physicians
was yet to arrive at the district.
Of late, a team from the district led by
Kashinath Banjade, chief of the District Public Health Office, has flung open a health
camp to treat the patients.
Ministry statement said another team of
physicians is being already alerted in Nepalgunj and is ready to travel to the district if
the situation so demands.
It also said that an appropriate measure has
been taken to control the spread of disease through the combined efforts of central,
regional and district-level health teams.
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