5 more die in camps

BY SHANKER KHAREL

SUNSARI, Sept 7 - Two more persons who were displaced by the Koshi floods succumbed to diarrhea on Saturday, taking the death toll in the aftermath of the floods to 14. Babita Ray, 45, and Mohhamed Khatun, 25, both locals of Haripur, Sunsari district died while ...

and cold.

To control the spread of different communicable diseases in the temporary camps inhabited by flood victims, government has mobilized high level medical teams in the affected areas.

According to Minister for Health, Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, 12 teams comprising six doctors and 30 health workers are mobilized in the affected areas to provide medical service.

Similarly, a team of women health workers are being sent to carry out vaccination programs for diseases like measles, vitamin A deficiency, and polio in the flood affected areas, he said.

Another report from Rajbiraj stated that Kasira Khatun, 26, a displaced from Haripur-8, Sunsari district living in temporary camps of Saptari succumbed to diarrhea on Saturday.  Similarly, two people named Goma Chaudhary, 24, of Fattepur-1, Saptari and Jham Bahadur Thapa Magar, 65, died due to snake bite on Saturday.

300 women get medical services Nona Koirala Memorial Institute, Biratnagar, with the help of doctors' team provided medical service to 300 pregnant women and nursing mothers on Saturday. According to Narayan Kumar, a medical officer, women living in a camp at Bhokraha were provided with health facilities and pregnant women were examined. The health camp is supported by Abhay Narayan Hospital, Biratnagar.